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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) 1918.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1922.

2. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?
(a) The East Coast Cigar Company.
(b) The American Cigar Company.
(c) The Richmond Cigar Company.
(d) The Virginia Cigar Company.

3. Who founded the UNIA?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Louis Farican.

4. 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) Maya Angelou.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Countee Cullen.

5. In 1916, what group launched a campaign to save the home of Frederick Douglass from default?
(a) NOCL.
(b) NLBW.
(c) NAACP.
(d) NACW.

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

7. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?
(a) Moody Bible Institute.
(b) New York's Bible Institute.
(c) Henderson Southern Baptist Institute.
(d) Hawking's Bible Institute.

8. 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) 124.
(c) 3.
(d) 65.

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

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

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

12. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Cookman Institute.
(b) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(c) Washington Institute.
(d) Frankman's Boys School.

13. 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) 19.
(d) 6.

14. Between 1915 and 1920, how many Blacks "heeded its (the North's) call" because of the southern exploitation they faced regarding labor.
(a) 250,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

15. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?
(a) 53%
(b) 22%.
(c) 69%.
(d) 31%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first White woman named as executive director of the CIC?

2. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," where were the first Black aviators for WWII trained?

3. In 1937, how many Black woman walked out of the I.N. Vaughn Company because of low wages and hard work?

4. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?

5. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?

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