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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. 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) 124.
(b) 3.
(c) 15.
(d) 65.

2. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?
(a) Martha Biggins.
(b) Laura Drens.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Mary Stone.

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) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

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

5. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(b) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(c) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(d) Pi Beta Alpha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.

2. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

3. What, according to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," did Black women believe was essential to "racial harmony"?

4. What site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?

5. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?

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