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 site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?
(a) A former slave auction site.
(b) A former cotton plantation.
(c) A former garbage-dump site.
(d) A former jail-house.

2. How many American women were working 1945?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 7 million.
(c) 35 million.
(d) 11 million.

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) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?
(a) Matthew Stride.
(b) Eugene Connor.
(c) Steven McBride.
(d) Sam Spint.

5. What was the name of the St. Louis Black woman that led a strike against a pecan factory owner?
(a) Mildred Stevens.
(b) Connie Smith.
(c) Sandra Blantly.
(d) Fanny Mae Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What report detailed the following: "At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family"?

2. After 1970, what organization was synonymous with the women's movement?

3. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

4. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?

5. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

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