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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. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?
(a) $67.00.
(b) $3.68.
(c) $1.50.
(d) $0.87.

2. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?
(a) Poems.
(b) Songs.
(c) Books.
(d) Pies and cakes.

3. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?
(a) Pauline Hopkins.
(b) Francis Burks.
(c) Laura Sterns.
(d) Mary May Wright.

4. What site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?
(a) A former slave auction site.
(b) A former garbage-dump site.
(c) A former cotton plantation.
(d) A former jail-house.

5. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Orsen Walls.
(b) Richard Hofstadter.
(c) Micheal Miller.
(d) Stephen Strenton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?

2. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

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

4. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?

5. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?

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