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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In what year was the Federal Employment Practices Commission established?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)

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

3. What state law covered under federal legislation, declared that one spouse must resign if the other was gainfully employed?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the radical atmosphere of the 1920's make possible for Blacks to initiate in the political arena?

2. Why did the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt not give Black leaders any reason to celebrate?

3. What was the Negro Congress and the Southern Negro Youth Congress able to settle in regard to the strike between Black women and the I.N. Vaughn Company?

4. In 1920, what did the YWCA go on record as advocating?

5. What affect did WWI have on Blacks?

6. What questions were Blacks left with in the years following WWI?

7. What change did the Susan B. Anthony Amendment face in regard to the Jones Amendment?

8. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.

9. Why did the chapter "Cusp of a New Era" state that Black club women's achievements were most satisfying?

10. What were the ratio differences between young Black women and young White women over the age of fourteen working?

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