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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Braintrusters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1938.

2. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Mary Church Terrell.
(c) Ida Well-Barnett.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

3. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "A Need for More."
(b) "The Negro Family."
(c) "Desires of the American Slave."
(d) "Conditions of the Negro in America."

4. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Milly Green.
(b) Francis Ellen Harper.
(c) Mary Church.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

2. 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?

3. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?

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

5. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?

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