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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?
(a) The Oak Mission.
(b) White Rose Mission.
(c) The Tulip Mission.
(d) Purple Iris Mission.

2. What novel described all kinds of women with poetic rapture?
(a) "The Southern Rapture."
(b) "A Floating Iris."
(c) "Cane."
(d) "The River."

3. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?
(a) 17.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

5. In what year was the Federal Employment Practices Commission established?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1941.

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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) "Time."
(d) "The Truth."

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

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

12. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?
(a) 67.
(b) 15.
(c) 100.
(d) 31.

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

14. In 1917, Ida Wells-Barnett held a memorial service for how many Black soldiers (hung in accusation for shooting Whites)?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 37.
(d) 6.

15. In 1935, what leader of the Texas state committee insisted that Texas Whites would object to an integrated Texas community?
(a) Martin B. Hidgins.
(b) Paul Minors.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?

3. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?

4. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?

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

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