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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?
(a) Pies and cakes.
(b) Books.
(c) Poems.
(d) Songs.

2. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?
(a) Hawking's Bible Institute.
(b) Henderson Southern Baptist Institute.
(c) Moody Bible Institute.
(d) New York's Bible Institute.

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

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

5. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?
(a) ABWL.
(b) NAWSA.
(c) NCWA.
(d) NWCL.

6. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?
(a) 53%
(b) 69%.
(c) 31%.
(d) 22%.

7. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?
(a) The East Coast Cigar Company.
(b) The Richmond Cigar Company.
(c) The American Cigar Company.
(d) The Virginia Cigar Company.

8. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?
(a) 65.
(b) 15.
(c) 124.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

12. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?
(a) William and Mary University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

13. 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 New York riot.
(d) The Charleston riot.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?

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

3. What President's wife, in 1934, began taking an active stand on racial issues?

4. How much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?

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

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