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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. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Mary Stanton.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

2. What was Mary McLeod Bethune riding aboard in 1927?
(a) A ocean-liner.
(b) A submarine.
(c) A Navy cruise ship.
(d) A slave ship.

3. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1786.

4. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?
(a) Classics on Stage.
(b) Saved.
(c) Octoroons.
(d) Metamorphsis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?

2. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

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

4. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?

5. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?

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