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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of 1935, how many northern cities had over 100,000 African-Americans in population?
(a) 34.
(b) 11.
(c) 17.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

5. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) PWA.
(b) NACW.
(c) AWM.
(d) DESM.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) $8.00.
(d) $6.00.

12. What did the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation" name as the most "pressing reason to draw out the poison of racial antagonism"?
(a) Social justice.
(b) Welfare.
(c) Economy.
(d) Euqality.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many, counting Mary McLeod Bethune, of her siblings were able to attend school?

3. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?

4. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percent of youth did she find to be Black?

5. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?

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