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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Euqality.
(c) Economy.
(d) Welfare.

3. What year's census showed that "all women employed in manufacturing and mechanical industries were Black"?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1920.

4. What poet did Bethune hire as an assistant for her position as the Negro Affairs director?
(a) Frank Horne.
(b) Jean Toomer.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neal Hurston.

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

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

7. Who was the first Black woman named to the federal bench and also became the Manhattan Borough President in 1954?
(a) Bridget Brown-Marker.
(b) Claire Stuckker-Morris.
(c) Constance Baker Motley.
(d) Chandra Smith-Jones.

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

9. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Virginia riot.
(b) The Chicago riot.
(c) The Charleston riot.
(d) The New York riot.

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

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

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

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

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

15. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?
(a) 11.
(b) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 49.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?

2. Who founded the UNIA?

3. What novel described all kinds of women with poetic rapture?

4. In what year did Legenia Burns Hope organize the Atlanta Neighborhod Union?

5. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?

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