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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Mary McLeod Bethune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Reverend R.E. Wall.

2. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) Mattie Griffith.
(b) Donna Mary Banks.
(c) Frances Ellen Harper.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Criminal Man."
(b) "Science of the Negro."
(c) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."
(d) "Wickedness of the Black."

4. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Polio.
(d) Diphtheria.

5. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?

2. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?

3. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

4. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?

5. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?

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