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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To be a Woman Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Jamaica.

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By three.
(b) By six.
(c) By two.
(d) By four.

3. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?
(a) Morality.
(b) Character.
(c) Worth.
(d) Equality.

4. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Mary Church Terrell.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

5. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Dismantlers."
(b) "Easers of Poverty."
(c) "Robber barons."
(d) "Freedom Fighters."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

2. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?

3. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?

4. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

5. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

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