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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Black judges were "in the system" in New York City?
(a) 2.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

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

3. In 1941, who was the Secretary of War that Bethune wrote to regarding the war department's failure to invite the NCNW to a meeting that was organizing women for the war effort?
(a) Thomas J. Watters.
(b) Michael J. Simpson.
(c) Henry L. Stimson.
(d) Gordon M. Myers.

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

5. In 1945, what percent of the American workforce was women?
(a) 54%.
(b) 76%.
(c) 38%.
(d) 14%.

6. In 1916, what group launched a campaign to save the home of Frederick Douglass from default?
(a) NAACP.
(b) NLBW.
(c) NOCL.
(d) NACW.

7. After the strike on the pecan factory in St. Louis ended, how much more per week did the women working there get paid?
(a) 6 dollars more a week.
(b) 8 dollars more a week.
(c) 2 dollars more a week.
(d) 4 dollars more a week.

8. What was the name of the NAACP's magazine?
(a) "The Truth."
(b) "The Crisis."
(c) "The Voice."
(d) "The Call."

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

10. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?
(a) Sarah Michaels.
(b) The widow of W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Fanny Mae.
(d) Madame C.J. Walker.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case argued?

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

3. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

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

5. In 1917, Ida Wells-Barnett held a memorial service for how many Black soldiers (hung in accusation for shooting Whites)?

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