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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Mary McLeod Bethune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "The Negro Family."
(b) "Desires of the American Slave."
(c) "A Need for More."
(d) "Conditions of the Negro in America."

2. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1890.

3. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

4. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Starve them.

5. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?
(a) 3.
(b) 124.
(c) 15.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?

2. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?

3. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

4. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?

5. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

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