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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?
(a) Purple Iris Mission.
(b) White Rose Mission.
(c) The Tulip Mission.
(d) The Oak Mission.

2. What President's wife, in 1934, began taking an active stand on racial issues?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) Mamie Eisenhower.
(c) Lou Hoover.
(d) Bess Truman.

3. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Science of the Negro."
(b) "Wickedness of the Black."
(c) "Criminal Man."
(d) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."

4. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) William and Mary University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Nashville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?

2. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?

3. What novel described all kinds of women with poetic rapture?

4. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

5. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?

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