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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percent of youth did she find to be Black?
(a) 13%.
(b) 31%.
(c) 4%.
(d) 23%.

2. Who founded the UNIA?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Louis Farican.
(d) Malcolm X.

3. In 1941, who was the Secretary of War that Bethune wrote to regarding the war department's failure to invite the NCNW to a meeting that was organizing women for the war effort?
(a) Michael J. Simpson.
(b) Henry L. Stimson.
(c) Thomas J. Watters.
(d) Gordon M. Myers.

4. 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) Pauline Hopkins.
(c) Mary May Wright.
(d) Laura Sterns.

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

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

7. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?
(a) "A hunt with no prey."
(b) "A dense forest."
(c) "An unending tunnel."
(d) "A hall of mirrors."

8. In what year was the first segregated YWCA chartered in Ohio?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1921.

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

10. What mission in New York, helped women get job-placement, job training, and offered Afro-American history courses?
(a) The Tulip Mission.
(b) The Oak Mission.
(c) Purple Iris Mission.
(d) White Rose Mission.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?

2. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

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

4. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?

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

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