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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 punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Banishment.
(b) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(c) Lynched.
(d) Burned at the stake.

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

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

4. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?
(a) Murders.
(b) Sexual exploitation.
(c) Wife beatings.
(d) Lynchings.

5. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
(a) 16.
(b) 23.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

2. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?

3. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?

4. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?

5. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?

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