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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dress Rehearsal for the Sixties, Coming Full Circle, Women's Movement and Black Discontent, Strong Women and Strutting Men, and Outlook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Oscar DePriest.
(b) Anthony Roberts.
(c) Jefferson Terrell.
(d) Thomas Paine.

2. Prior to the United States entering into WWII, what percent of school systems refused to hire married women?
(a) 85%.
(b) 77%.
(c) 17%.
(d) 54%.

3. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) 19.
(b) 26.
(c) 16.
(d) 29.

4. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Farcet House.
(b) Miller's House.
(c) Hull House.
(d) Well-Stone Home.

5. Who was the first White woman named as executive director of the CIC?
(a) Willie Mae Alexander.
(b) Sonya Smith-Jackson.
(c) lillian Smith.
(d) Jessie Daniel Ames.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?

2. Who was quoted at the opening of the chapter "The Second World War and After"?

3. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

4. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?

5. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?

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