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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," did Black women believe was essential to "racial harmony"?
(a) "The downfall of male dominance."
(b) "The balance of spheres."
(c) "The contribution of women."
(d) "The necessity of equality."

2. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?
(a) "A dense forest."
(b) "An unending tunnel."
(c) "A hunt with no prey."
(d) "A hall of mirrors."

3. What President's wife, in 1934, began taking an active stand on racial issues?
(a) Lou Hoover.
(b) Bess Truman.
(c) Mamie Eisenhower.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

4. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?
(a) The Creole Show.
(b) The Dixie Mason Show.
(c) The Southern Black Belle.
(d) The Song of the South Show.

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.

6. In what year was the first segregated YWCA chartered in Ohio?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1818.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who was the first White woman named as executive director of the CIC?
(a) Jessie Daniel Ames.
(b) Willie Mae Alexander.
(c) lillian Smith.
(d) Sonya Smith-Jackson.

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

14. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)
(a) Rastus-Cream of Wheat.
(b) Aunt Jemima.
(c) Uncle Ben.
(d) Mrs. Butterworth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the "talk of the twenties"?

3. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?

4. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?

5. Prior to the United States entering into WWII, what percent of school systems refused to hire married women?

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