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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. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It was cut in half.
(b) It was cut by one fourth.
(c) It doubled.
(d) It tripled.

2. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?
(a) Sarah Michaels.
(b) Madame C.J. Walker.
(c) The widow of W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Fanny Mae.

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

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

5. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Washington Institute.
(b) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(c) Frankman's Boys School.
(d) Cookman Institute.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?

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?

3. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?

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. In what year did Legenia Burns Hope organize the Atlanta Neighborhod Union?

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