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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A wrote an pamphlet that chastised women for trying to vote.
B was sent to college by her blue vein parents.
C published the Red Record, the first documented statistical report on lynching.
D argued that free blacks were fortunate to be given so many opportunities in freedom.
Question #2
A California
B Wyoming
C New York
D Mississippi
Question #3
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #4
A Dorthea Dix
B Mary Ann Bickerdyke
C Harriet Tubman
D Clara Barton
Question #5
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #6
A carefully avoided returning to Georgia where she was born.
B escaped slavery through the underground rail road and returned many times to the South rescue hundreds more.
C escaped slavery to avoid being forced into a slave marriage
D was helped to freedom by her free husband.
Question #7
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #8
A women who did piece work for factories in their homes.
B a law by female reformers to keep men from drinking their wages in taverns.
C when a wife kicked out her husband for abusive behavior.
D when factories had lay-offs of employees.
Question #9
A an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won
B argued that girl’s intellect was equal to boy’s but unequal access to higher education created a gap
C ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War
D resented being called a “factory girl” and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood
Question #10
A argued that girl’s intellect was equal to boy’s but unequal access to higher education created a gap
B an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won
C was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.
D ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War
Question #11
A was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.
B resented being called a “factory girl” and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood
C ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War
D an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won
Question #12
A was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.
B an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won
C resented being called a “factory girl” and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood
D argued that girl’s intellect was equal to boy’s but unequal access to higher education created a gap
Question #13
A was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.
B resented being called a “factory girl” and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood
C ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War
D argued that girl’s intellect was equal to boy’s but unequal access to higher education created a gap
Question #14
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #15
A Massachusetts
B New Jersey
C New York
D Rhode Island
Question #16
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #17
A were all slaves or indentured servants with little money or influence.
B were mostly women, either married or widowed.
C were not even allowed to be present at the court proceedings.
D numbered only 50 in a total colony population of 75,000.
Question #18
A wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead
B was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.
C described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.
D was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.
Question #19
A was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.
B described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.
C wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead
D was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.
Question #20
A was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.
B wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead
C was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.
D described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.
Question #21
A wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead
B described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.
C was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.
D was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.
Question #22
A detached emotionally to their children.
B highly sexual beings available to white masters for sexual sport.
C animal-like creatures who could give birth and go right back to work.
D All answers listed are correct
Question #23
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #24
A the town gossip who created chaos.
B the first female governor in the colonies.
C skilled in business and legal matters.
D the most qualified person to work in the shipping office in Baltimore.
Question #25
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #26
A she was the village minister who performed the ceremony to marry herself and her husband.
B she was able to get away with telling her husband “No obey” during the marriage vows.
C her father was wealthy and insisted she retain property in her own name.
D she knew how to use her feminine wiles to seduce a man into marriage.
Question #27
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #28
A were considered their husbands property, covered under the law with no legal status of their own.
B were not responsible for running the house and helping in the fields when needed.
C were often listed in court cases against men who were trying to cheat them in business.
D were single and had equal rights to men in business and land rights.
Question #29
A were required to be set free by their owners if they got married and had children.
B soon became more numerous than male indentured servants in the South.
C were exempt from field work, mostly tending to domestic duties.
D were required to work for a master for 4-7 years and were often sexually abused.
Question #30
A lazy and self absorbed.
B poor mothers who neglected their children to attend work.
C no match for the European women in the fields.
D heathen savages and sexual deviants.
Question #31
A meant that her father essentially disowned her for marrying a white man.
B quickly followed John Smith’s refusal to marry her because she was an Indian.
C created such anger in Virginia that the couple had to move to Maryland.
D was probably a marriage of love but at the same time served diplomatic goals.
Question #32
A was very influential with her father and the people of Jamestown.
B learned English during visits by earlier ships from England.
C contracted measles shortly after visiting Jamestown.
D met John Smith with flowers when he first arrived.
Question #33
A tended to marry later than contemporary women in other places.
B were valued only for the fishing nets they made.
C survived by hunting and gathering but did no farming.
D maintained the majority of the tribe’s livelihood, responsible for food, clothes, home and children.
Question #34
A patrilocal
B patriarchal
C matrilineal
D matriarchal
Question #35
A census records and Wills
B birth and death records
C All answers listed are correct
D diaries and journals
Question #36
A FALSE
B TRUE