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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. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(b) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(c) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(d) Pi Beta Alpha.

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

3. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1619.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1567.
(d) 1734.

4. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1880.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?

2. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

3. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

4. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the end of the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" state were the problems that educated Black women faced?

3. What did Ida B. Wells read in a paper after attending a meeting in Washington, D.C. to speak before Black women activists?

4. What headlines ran on Christmas Day in 1884 in the "Daily Appeal"?

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

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

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. A month before Blacks set foot in Virginia, what laws did the House of Burgesses pass?

10. What did Robert Purvis say about the equality of sexes?

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