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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Mary McLeod Bethune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Orsen Walls.
(b) Richard Hofstadter.
(c) Micheal Miller.
(d) Stephen Strenton.

2. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 17.
(d) 54.

3. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Maria Strena Markerson.
(b) Dawn South.
(c) Anna Julia Cooper.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

4. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?
(a) The Southern Black Belle.
(b) The Dixie Mason Show.
(c) The Creole Show.
(d) The Song of the South Show.

5. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Criminal Man."
(b) "Wickedness of the Black."
(c) "Science of the Negro."
(d) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."

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 much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?

3. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?

4. How many, counting Mary McLeod Bethune, of her siblings were able to attend school?

5. In 1916, what group launched a campaign to save the home of Frederick Douglass from default?

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