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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?
(a) Sandra Bruns.
(b) Madra Biship.
(c) Eva Bowles.
(d) Theresa Singer.

6. In 1937, how many Black woman walked out of the I.N. Vaughn Company because of low wages and hard work?
(a) 200.
(b) 600.
(c) 400.
(d) 500.

7. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?
(a) $0.87.
(b) $67.00.
(c) $3.68.
(d) $1.50.

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

9. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?
(a) Francis Burks.
(b) Laura Sterns.
(c) Mary May Wright.
(d) Pauline Hopkins.

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

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

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

13. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?
(a) 239.
(b) 179.
(c) 301.
(d) 100.

14. What was the "talk of the twenties"?
(a) Femininity.
(b) Women working?
(c) Social change.
(d) Feminism.

15. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?
(a) Steven McBride.
(b) Eugene Connor.
(c) Matthew Stride.
(d) Sam Spint.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?

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

4. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?

5. What was the name of the St. Louis Black woman that led a strike against a pecan factory owner?

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