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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Braintrusters.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?
(a) 100.
(b) 67.
(c) 15.
(d) 31.

3. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Chicago riot.
(b) The Charleston riot.
(c) The Virginia riot.
(d) The New York riot.

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

5. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?
(a) 239.
(b) 301.
(c) 100.
(d) 179.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

2. What was the motto of the NACW?

3. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.

4. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)

5. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

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