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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By taking authority of women.
(b) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.
(c) By petitioning the government.
(d) By declaring themselves head-of-household.

2. Who, according to W.E.B. Du Bois, could you not bribe?
(a) White women.
(b) Black people.
(c) Black women.
(d) White people.

3. 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 three.
(c) By four.
(d) By two.

4. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Nashville.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Fairbanks.

5. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Frances Willard.
(d) Lady Somerset.

6. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Richard Hofstadter.
(b) Micheal Miller.
(c) Orsen Walls.
(d) Stephen Strenton.

7. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A barber shop.
(c) A grocery.
(d) A wheat farm.

8. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Milly Green.
(c) Francis Ellen Harper.
(d) Mary Church.

9. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) Anthony Roberts.
(c) Jefferson Terrell.
(d) Oscar DePriest.

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

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

12. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Memphis.

13. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Birmingham.

14. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) Misson's Grocery.
(b) People's Grocery.
(c) First Street Grocery.
(d) Southern Grocery.

15. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?
(a) Fannie Barrier Williams.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Mary Church Terrell.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.

2. How much money did the CWL successfully lobby to establish kindergarten classes in 1898?

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

4. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

5. What was the motto of the NACW?

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