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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In 1935, what leader of the Texas state committee insisted that Texas Whites would object to an integrated Texas community?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Paul Minors.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Martin B. Hidgins.

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

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

8. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?
(a) Lugenia Hope.
(b) Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
(c) Mary Jackson.
(d) Lucy C. Laney.

9. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.
(a) 22nd.
(b) 12th.
(c) 36th.
(d) 5th.

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

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

12. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percentage of young Blacks were on relief?
(a) 76%.
(b) 49%.
(c) 27%.
(d) 15%.

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

14. In 1945, what percent of the American workforce was women?
(a) 54%.
(b) 14%.
(c) 76%.
(d) 38%.

15. In what year was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the strike on the pecan factory in St. Louis ended, how much more per week did the women working there get paid?

2. During the 1920s, what rate decreased?

3. What was the "talk of the twenties"?

4. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?

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

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