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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 magazine, in January 1924, announced that it would "show in pictures as well as writing, Negro women who are unique, accomplished, beautiful, intelligent, industrious, talented, and successful"?
(a) "Women's Day."
(b) "The Messenger."
(c) "The Truth."
(d) "Time."

2. 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?
(a) The bombing of a Birmingham church.
(b) The lynching of a 12 year old Black girl.
(c) The burning of a Black pastor's home.
(d) The riot in Chicago.

3. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?
(a) Mary Stanton.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

4. In what year did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1947.

5. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?
(a) New York's Bible Institute.
(b) Moody Bible Institute.
(c) Henderson Southern Baptist Institute.
(d) Hawking's Bible Institute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

2. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)

3. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?

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

5. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?

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