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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?
(a) Madra Biship.
(b) Eva Bowles.
(c) Sandra Bruns.
(d) Theresa Singer.

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

4. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?
(a) Lucy C. Laney.
(b) Lugenia Hope.
(c) Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
(d) Mary Jackson.

5. What state law covered under federal legislation, declared that one spouse must resign if the other was gainfully employed?
(a) Federal Single Family Employment Act.
(b) Federal Economy Act.
(c) Federal Fair Work Act.
(d) Federal Women's Work Act.

6. Who was elected President of the United States in 1932?
(a) Harrison.
(b) FDR.
(c) Hoover.
(d) Ford.

7. During the 1920s, what rate decreased?
(a) Number of inter-racial marriages.
(b) Number of black-on-white attacks.
(c) Number of rapes.
(d) Number of professional women.

8. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1921.

9. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percentage of young Blacks were on relief?
(a) 27%.
(b) 49%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 76%.

10. What was the "talk of the twenties"?
(a) Femininity.
(b) Women working?
(c) Feminism.
(d) Social change.

11. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?
(a) Mary Church Terrell.
(b) Ida Well-Barnett.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

12. How much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?
(a) $3.00.
(b) $4.00.
(c) $6.00.
(d) $8.00.

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

14. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?
(a) $67.00.
(b) $1.50.
(c) $3.68.
(d) $0.87.

15. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?
(a) NCWA.
(b) NAWSA.
(c) ABWL.
(d) NWCL.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black judges were "in the system" in New York City?

2. What, according to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," did Black women believe was essential to "racial harmony"?

3. How many days did it take the Black female workers and the I.N. Vaughn Company to come to an agreement on new work conditions and wages?

4. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?

5. Who was the first Black woman named to the federal bench and also became the Manhattan Borough President in 1954?

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