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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1923.

2. How many brothers and sister did Mary McLeod Bethune have?
(a) 3.
(b) 22.
(c) 11.
(d) 16.

3. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?
(a) 15.
(b) 3.
(c) 65.
(d) 124.

4. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?
(a) Steven McBride.
(b) Matthew Stride.
(c) Sam Spint.
(d) Eugene Connor.

5. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?
(a) NCWA.
(b) NAWSA.
(c) NWCL.
(d) ABWL.

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

7. 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) Countee Cullen.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

8. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?
(a) Marriage rate.
(b) Birth rate.
(c) Suicide rate.
(d) Divorce rate.

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

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

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

12. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?
(a) Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
(b) Lugenia Hope.
(c) Lucy C. Laney.
(d) Mary Jackson.

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

14. How many days did it take the Black female workers and the I.N. Vaughn Company to come to an agreement on new work conditions and wages?
(a) 6.
(b) 27.
(c) 154.
(d) 18.

15. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?
(a) Purple Iris Mission.
(b) White Rose Mission.
(c) The Tulip Mission.
(d) The Oak Mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Federal Employment Practices Commission established?

2. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?

3. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?

4. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?

5. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?

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