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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. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?
(a) The WOW.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The NAWSA.
(d) The BWLA.

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

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

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

5. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Reverend R.E. Wall.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

2. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

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

4. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?

5. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the Black family under siege between 1890 and 1910?

2. What incident moved W.E.B. Du Bois to praise Black women for their courage?

3. What opinion did "The Woman's Era" (1894) offer regarding the traditional roles of women?

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

5. Ultimately, why was Thomas Moss lynched?

6. What commonalities did Black and White women's organizations have?

7. What law did Virginia pass in regard to children born to Black female slaves and their masters?

8. What was the goal of the CWPA?

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

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

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