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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 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) Countee Cullen.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

2. Who was the first White woman named as executive director of the CIC?
(a) lillian Smith.
(b) Jessie Daniel Ames.
(c) Sonya Smith-Jackson.
(d) Willie Mae Alexander.

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

4. During the 1920s, what rate decreased?
(a) Number of rapes.
(b) Number of black-on-white attacks.
(c) Number of inter-racial marriages.
(d) Number of professional women.

5. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?
(a) NCWA.
(b) NAWSA.
(c) ABWL.
(d) NWCL.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?

2. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.

3. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?

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

5. What President's wife, in 1934, began taking an active stand on racial issues?

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