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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?
(a) Because the Black men had "taken out the White man for once."
(b) Because the Black man had "stood up for the Black woman."
(c) Because the Black man had "not backed down from each other."
(d) Because the Balck men had "stood like men."

3. 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) Pies and cakes.
(b) Songs.
(c) Books.
(d) Poems.

4. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frances Willard.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Lady Somerset.

5. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.
(a) 5th.
(b) 36th.
(c) 22nd.
(d) 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?

2. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

3. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

4. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

5. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?

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