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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, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Moral integrity.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Their ability to work.
(d) Complacency.

2. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) White women.
(b) Black men and white women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black men and women.

3. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

4. In 1830, who did Maria Stewart tell that it was their duty to cultivate a pure heart and thirst for knowledge in their children?
(a) Black mothers.
(b) Black men.
(c) Black and white mothers.
(d) Teachers.

5. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

2. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?

3. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

4. 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?

5. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

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