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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. What was the name of the fourteen year old Black boy that was lynched for allegedly whistling at a White woman?
(a) Emmett Till.
(b) Scott Stevenson.
(c) Charlie Baker.
(d) Brian Walker.

2. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?
(a) Suicide rate.
(b) Birth rate.
(c) Divorce rate.
(d) Marriage rate.

3. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1940.

4. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1786.

5. Who in 1866 sues the San Francisco Trolley Company for preventing her, a Black woman, from riding on one of its cars?
(a) Mary Ellen Pleasant.
(b) Sue Beth Myers.
(c) Sonja Franklin.
(d) Mary Mae Stance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?

2. How many, counting Mary McLeod Bethune, of her siblings were able to attend school?

3. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

4. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percent of youth did she find to be Black?

5. Although Blacks were rejoicing in the successful march on Washington, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., what happened one month later that erased the feelings of buoyancy?

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