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

2. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Ida Well-Barnett.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Mary Church Terrell.

3. How many, counting Mary McLeod Bethune, of her siblings were able to attend school?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

5. What, according to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," did Black women believe was essential to "racial harmony"?
(a) "The balance of spheres."
(b) "The contribution of women."
(c) "The downfall of male dominance."
(d) "The necessity of equality."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?

3. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?

4. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

5. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

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