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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. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?
(a) Madra Biship.
(b) Eva Bowles.
(c) Theresa Singer.
(d) Sandra Bruns.

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

3. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Jackson.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Nashville.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?

2. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?

3. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?

4. In what year was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?

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"?

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