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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?
(a) The Southern Black Belle.
(b) The Song of the South Show.
(c) The Dixie Mason Show.
(d) The Creole Show.

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

7. Between 1915 and 1920, how many Blacks "heeded its (the North's) call" because of the southern exploitation they faced regarding labor.
(a) 500,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

8. How many days did it take the Black female workers and the I.N. Vaughn Company to come to an agreement on new work conditions and wages?
(a) 6.
(b) 154.
(c) 27.
(d) 18.

9. Prior to the United States entering into WWII, what percent of school systems refused to hire married women?
(a) 77%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 54%.
(d) 17%.

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

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

12. In what year was the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court case argued?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1963.

13. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?
(a) Octoroons.
(b) Metamorphsis.
(c) Saved.
(d) Classics on Stage.

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

15. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the sheriff that upheld segregation ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama?

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

3. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?

4. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?

5. What did the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation" name as the most "pressing reason to draw out the poison of racial antagonism"?

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