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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?
(a) 22%.
(b) 53%
(c) 31%.
(d) 69%.

2. 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) Mary Stone.
(b) Martha Biggins.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Laura Drens.

3. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Countee Cullen.
(d) Langston Hughes.

4. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Reverend R.E. Wall.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

5. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) J. Rosamond Johnson.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the NAACP's magazine?

2. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

3. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?

4. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?

5. In 1914, who were the largest group of voters in South Carolina?

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