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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 sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?
(a) Matthew Stride.
(b) Steven McBride.
(c) Sam Spint.
(d) Eugene Connor.

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

3. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(b) Cookman Institute.
(c) Frankman's Boys School.
(d) Washington Institute.

4. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?
(a) Moody Bible Institute.
(b) New York's Bible Institute.
(c) Henderson Southern Baptist Institute.
(d) Hawking's Bible Institute.

5. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) William Wells Brown.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Richard M. Morester.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

3. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?

4. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

5. Who, according to W.E.B. Du Bois, could you not bribe?

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