1. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Reverend R.E. Wall.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. What poet did Bethune hire as an assistant for her position as the Negro Affairs director?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Jean Toomer.
(c) Zora Neal Hurston.
(d) Frank Horne.

3. What President's wife, in 1934, began taking an active stand on racial issues?
(a) Lou Hoover.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Bess Truman.
(d) Mamie Eisenhower.

4. How much money did the CWL successfully lobby to establish kindergarten classes in 1898?
(a) $7,000.
(b) $4,000.
(c) $20,000.
(d) $12,000.

5. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A wheat farm.
(b) A grocery.
(c) A saloon.
(d) A barber shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

2. In what year did Booker T. Washington die?

3. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

4. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

5. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

(see the answer key)

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