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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dress Rehearsal for the Sixties, Coming Full Circle, Women's Movement and Black Discontent, Strong Women and Strutting Men, and Outlook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1923.

2. 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) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

3. What year was the Dryer bill introduced to Congress?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1915.

4. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. 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 six.
(b) By two.
(c) By four.
(d) By three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?

2. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

3. How much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?

4. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?

5. Although Blacks were rejoicing in the successful march on Washington, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., what happened one month later that erased the feelings of buoyancy?

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