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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dress Rehearsal for the Sixties, Coming Full Circle, Women's Movement and Black Discontent, Strong Women and Strutting Men, and Outlook.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By taking authority of women.
(b) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(c) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.
(d) By petitioning the government.

3. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Harriet Forten Remond.
(b) Charles Remond.
(c) Isaac Meyers.
(d) Robert Purvis.

4. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1619.
(b) 1734.
(c) 1567.
(d) 1687.

5. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) January 13, 1975.
(b) April 15, 1967.
(c) March 4, 1945.
(d) December 1, 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

2. What year was the Dryer bill introduced to Congress?

3. What report detailed the following: "At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family"?

4. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

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

(see the answer key)

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