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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. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1687.
(b) 1567.
(c) 1619.
(d) 1734.

2. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 49.
(d) 24.

3. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Oscar DePriest.
(b) Thomas Paine.
(c) Jefferson Terrell.
(d) Anthony Roberts.

4. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?
(a) "A dense forest."
(b) "A hall of mirrors."
(c) "A hunt with no prey."
(d) "An unending tunnel."

5. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

2. What did the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation" name as the most "pressing reason to draw out the poison of racial antagonism"?

3. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?

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

5. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

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