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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. 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 three.
(d) By four.

2. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Escaping them.
(b) Seducing them.
(c) Poisoning them.
(d) Burning fields.

3. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Virginia riot.
(b) The Chicago riot.
(c) The Charleston riot.
(d) The New York riot.

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

5. In what year did Legenia Burns Hope organize the Atlanta Neighborhod Union?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?

2. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

3. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?

4. What Mississippi civil rights activist was murdered in 1963?

5. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

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