As part of its recognition of Black History Month, DailyNews offers readers a quiz on topics drawn from Black history.

1. Historian Carter G. Woodson launched “Negro History Week," the precursor to Black History Month, in 1926. He selected February because it contained the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and which abolitionist leader?
   a) William Wells Brown
   b) Frederick Douglass
   c) Sarah Parker Remond
   d) Harriet Tubman
    
2. The Black Loyalists that established themselves in Atlantic Canada were involved in which conflict?
   a) American Revolutionary War
   b) Seven Years’ War
   c) War of Succession
   d) War of 1812
    
3. Michaëlle Jean, the first Black person to serve as Canada’s Governor General, was born in which country?
   a) French Guiana
   b) Haiti
   c) Jamaica
   d) Kenya
    
4. The oldest active Black church in Canada is located in which Windsor neighbourhood?
   a) downtown
   b) Ford City
   c) Sandwich
   d) Walkerville
    
5. In 2010, the mayor of Halifax apologized for the 1960s destruction of what historic Black community?
   a) Africville
   b) Amherstburg
   c) Dresden
   d) Hogan’s Alley
    
6. The experiences of Reverend Josiah Henson, who was enslaved before seeking freedom in Canada in 1830, were the subject of what famous novel?
   a) Beloved
   b) Confessions of Nat Turner
   c) Roots
   d) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    
7. Which author’s Buxton Trilogy of novels are set in the Chatham-Kent community settled by people formerly enslaved?
   a) Misty Copeland
   b) Langston Hughes
   c) Christopher Paul Curtis
   d) Elizabeth Zunon
    
8. In 1946, Nova Scotian businesswoman Viola Desmond challenged racial segregation by doing what?
   a) refusing to move from the Whites-only counter in a New Glasgow café
   b) refusing to leave the Whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow
   c) refusing to sit at the back of the New Glasgow public bus
   d) drinking from the whites-only water fountain in New Glasgow
    
9. In 1967, 10 Torontonians — all with a common West Indian heritage — founded what popular cultural festival?
   a) Caribana
   b) Nuit Blanche
   c) Toronto Culture Days
   d) WestFest
    
10. Jackie Robinson played on which Canadian baseball team before making his historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947?
    a) Chatham Coloured All-Stars
    b) Montreal Royals
    c) Ottawa Champions
    d) Toronto Blue Jays

Answers here.