When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Test | Final Test - Easy

Paula Giddings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Test | Final Test - Easy

Paula Giddings
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?
(a) The widow of W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Sarah Michaels.
(c) Madame C.J. Walker.
(d) Fanny Mae.

2. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
(a) 23.
(b) 5.
(c) 16.
(d) 0.

3. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?
(a) Octoroons.
(b) Classics on Stage.
(c) Metamorphsis.
(d) Saved.

4. What magazine "editorialized that brown skin was . . . more appealing to Whites"?
(a) "Ebony."
(b) "Half-Century."
(c) "The Crisis."
(d) "Rapture."

5. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)
(a) Aunt Jemima.
(b) Uncle Ben.
(c) Rastus-Cream of Wheat.
(d) Mrs. Butterworth.

6. In 1937, how many Black woman walked out of the I.N. Vaughn Company because of low wages and hard work?
(a) 400.
(b) 200.
(c) 500.
(d) 600.

7. After the strike on the pecan factory in St. Louis ended, how much more per week did the women working there get paid?
(a) 4 dollars more a week.
(b) 8 dollars more a week.
(c) 2 dollars more a week.
(d) 6 dollars more a week.

8. In what year was the Federal Employment Practices Commission established?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1957.

9. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?
(a) "A hall of mirrors."
(b) "A dense forest."
(c) "An unending tunnel."
(d) "A hunt with no prey."

10. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Charleston riot.
(b) The New York riot.
(c) The Chicago riot.
(d) The Virginia riot.

11. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?
(a) Because the Black man had "not backed down from each other."
(b) Because the Black man had "stood up for the Black woman."
(c) Because the Black men had "taken out the White man for once."
(d) Because the Balck men had "stood like men."

12. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Countee Cullen.
(d) Maya Angelou.

13. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?
(a) 100.
(b) 15.
(c) 31.
(d) 67.

14. In 1917, Ida Wells-Barnett held a memorial service for how many Black soldiers (hung in accusation for shooting Whites)?
(a) 37.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 19.

15. What state law covered under federal legislation, declared that one spouse must resign if the other was gainfully employed?
(a) Federal Women's Work Act.
(b) Federal Economy Act.
(c) Federal Fair Work Act.
(d) Federal Single Family Employment Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," did Black women believe was essential to "racial harmony"?

2. What did Elise McDougald state was assuming a subordinate place in regard to feminists efforts?

3. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

4. Prior to the United States entering into WWII, what percent of school systems refused to hire married women?

5. What magazine, in January 1924, announced that it would "show in pictures as well as writing, Negro women who are unique, accomplished, beautiful, intelligent, industrious, talented, and successful"?

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