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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?

2. What was the motto of the NACW?

3. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

4. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

5. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to the chapter "Casting of the Die," how did English slave traders describe Black women?

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

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

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

10. Ultimately, why was Thomas Moss lynched?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What opposition did Black women face in regard to the men of their own race and culture? Where did these issues arise from? How were the issues solved?

Essay Topic 2

Part one of the book was dedicated to Black women "inventing themselves." Discuss in detail the steps that Black women needed to take to invent themselves.

Essay Topic 3

Many specific acts against Blacks were defined as being the initial reason to start an organization, a woman's initial involvement in the movement, and a call for serious social change. Discuss in depth one of the acts described in the book (in regard to the beginning of a group), the actions that supported the need for the change, who spearheaded the act, and where they took their hopes for the necessary change.

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