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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. What was the name of the St. Louis Black woman that led a strike against a pecan factory owner?
(a) Mildred Stevens.
(b) Fanny Mae Smith.
(c) Sandra Blantly.
(d) Connie Smith.

2. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," where were the first Black aviators for WWII trained?
(a) Quantico.
(b) West Point.
(c) Fort Knox.
(d) Tuskegee.

3. What advertising image did the chapter "A Search for Self" state was grotesque? (As pointed out by Elise McDougald.)
(a) Rastus-Cream of Wheat.
(b) Uncle Ben.
(c) Mrs. Butterworth.
(d) Aunt Jemima.

4. At which bible institute did Mary McLeod Bethune study?
(a) Hawking's Bible Institute.
(b) New York's Bible Institute.
(c) Henderson Southern Baptist Institute.
(d) Moody Bible Institute.

5. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?
(a) Books.
(b) Songs.
(c) Poems.
(d) Pies and cakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?

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

3. What magazine, in January 1924, announced that it would "show in pictures as well as writing, Negro women who are unique, accomplished, beautiful, intelligent, industrious, talented, and successful"?

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

5. In what year was the first segregated YWCA chartered in Ohio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mary McLeod Bethune do at the age of 52 in 1927?

2. What did the suffrage campaign represent for Black women?

3. What two developments changed the image of Black women following WWI?

4. What allowed Eleanor Roosevelt to fully overcome her racial prejudice?

5. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.

6. In the South, what did racial antipathy do?

7. What initially was to happen to the monies granted for slum clearance in Daytona Beach?

8. In 1919, what unusual step did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge take?

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

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

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