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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 many brothers and sister did Mary McLeod Bethune have?
(a) 11.
(b) 3.
(c) 16.
(d) 22.

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

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

4. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) South Carolina.

5. 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?
(a) Martha Biggins.
(b) Mary Stone.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Laura Drens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?

2. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?

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

4. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?

5. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?

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