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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?
(a) Mary Stanton.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

2. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The local governing male.
(b) The church.
(c) The local prison authorities.
(d) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.

3. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

5. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1890.

6. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?
(a) Lynchings.
(b) Murders.
(c) Wife beatings.
(d) Sexual exploitation.

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

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

9. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)
(a) "A Story."
(b) "Freedom RIngs."
(c) "Clotel."
(d) "Black."

10. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Martha Banks.
(b) Sara Brooks.
(c) Mary Wright.
(d) Laura Towne.

11. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?
(a) The organization of the NACW.
(b) The organization of th YWCA.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The organization of the AAWO.

12. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Federick Douglass.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

13. 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) Ida B. Jones.
(b) Josephine Seams.
(c) Jane P. Merritt.
(d) Mary Franklin.

14. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Douglass.
(b) Baby Wells.
(c) Baby Williams.
(d) Baby Anthoney.

15. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Harriet Forten Remond.
(b) Charles Remond.
(c) Isaac Meyers.
(d) Robert Purvis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

2. In 1830, who did Maria Stewart tell that it was their duty to cultivate a pure heart and thirst for knowledge in their children?

3. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

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 1874, what was the most formidable women's organization in Britain?

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