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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Mary McLeod Bethune.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Cuba.

3. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By four.
(b) By two.
(c) By six.
(d) By three.

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

5. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.
(a) The American Journalists Club.
(b) The New York Woman Writers Club.
(c) The American Woman Writers Club.
(d) The Sorosis Women's Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)

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

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

4. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

5. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

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