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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. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?
(a) Mary May Wright.
(b) Francis Burks.
(c) Laura Sterns.
(d) Pauline Hopkins.

2. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?
(a) 17.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. What site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?
(a) A former garbage-dump site.
(b) A former cotton plantation.
(c) A former jail-house.
(d) A former slave auction site.

4. Who was the first White woman named as executive director of the CIC?
(a) Willie Mae Alexander.
(b) lillian Smith.
(c) Jessie Daniel Ames.
(d) Sonya Smith-Jackson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Legenia Burns Hope organize the Atlanta Neighborhod Union?

2. What was Mary McLeod Bethune riding aboard in 1927?

3. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

4. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?

5. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

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