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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Toward Interracial Cooperation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?
(a) Josephine Seams.
(b) Jane P. Merritt.
(c) Mary Franklin.
(d) Ida B. Jones.

2. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1870.

3. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.
(a) 5th.
(b) 22nd.
(c) 12th.
(d) 36th.

4. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Hang them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Whip them.
(d) Starve them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?

2. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?

3. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?

4. In 1916, what group launched a campaign to save the home of Frederick Douglass from default?

5. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

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