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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many signatures did the Victoria Earle Mathew's Loyal Union collect in support of the Blair Amendment?
(a) 10,000+.
(b) 8,800.
(c) 9,100.
(d) 5,000.

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

4. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?
(a) Frederick Glass.
(b) Henry Spelman.
(c) Scott Maze.
(d) Thomas Slavern.

5. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) Richard M. Morester.
(b) William Wells Brown.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

2. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?

3. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?

4. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?

5. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened as a result of Ida B. Wellss' British tour?

2. Why did the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage" state that women's suffrage was important?

3. After emancipation, what did both Black men and women escape from? (Not in regard to slavery itself.)

4. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

5. What caused Mary Church Terrell to plunge head-first into a life of vibrant activism?

6. What were the differences between the Black and White women's organizations?

7. What were Thomas Moss's final words before he was lynched in Tennessee?

8. Why did the chapter "Defending Our Name" state that Ida B. Wells should have been pleased?

9. How did Representative Clark of Florida (1915) prefer to look at women?

10. What was the purpose of the World Colombian Exposition of 1893?

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