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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. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The slave master's wife.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) The slave whom acted as her mother.

2. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?
(a) Saved.
(b) Octoroons.
(c) Classics on Stage.
(d) Metamorphsis.

3. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Robert Purvis.
(b) Harriet Forten Remond.
(c) Charles Remond.
(d) Isaac Meyers.

4. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Federick Douglass.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. What year was the Dryer bill introduced to Congress?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

3. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

4. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?

5. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?

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