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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(b) Frankman's Boys School.
(c) Washington Institute.
(d) Cookman Institute.

2. In what year was the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case argued?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1954.

3. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Kentucky.

4. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," where were the first Black aviators for WWII trained?
(a) Fort Knox.
(b) Tuskegee.
(c) West Point.
(d) Quantico.

5. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?
(a) Arna Bontemps.
(b) Selma Thompkins.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Claude McKay.

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

7. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.
(a) 12th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 36th.
(d) 22nd.

8. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Atlanta.

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

10. According to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," where did Black and White women "find a common meeting ground"?
(a) Religious orientation.
(b) Women in the workplace issues.
(c) Sexual orientation.
(d) Patriarchial issues.

11. Who was quoted at the opening of the chapter "The Second World War and After"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Virginia Durr.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?
(a) Saved.
(b) Metamorphsis.
(c) Octoroons.
(d) Classics on Stage.

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

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

15. What year was the Dryer bill introduced to Congress?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1937, how many Black woman walked out of the I.N. Vaughn Company because of low wages and hard work?

2. Who founded the UNIA?

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

4. What was Mary McLeod Bethune riding aboard in 1927?

5. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?

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