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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?
(a) The Creole Show.
(b) The Song of the South Show.
(c) The Southern Black Belle.
(d) The Dixie Mason Show.

2. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
(a) 5.
(b) 16.
(c) 23.
(d) 0.

3. In 1941, who was the Secretary of War that Bethune wrote to regarding the war department's failure to invite the NCNW to a meeting that was organizing women for the war effort?
(a) Henry L. Stimson.
(b) Gordon M. Myers.
(c) Thomas J. Watters.
(d) Michael J. Simpson.

4. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Birmingham.

5. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) PWA.
(b) NACW.
(c) DESM.
(d) AWM.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?

2. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

3. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.

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

5. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?

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