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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 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) Pies and cakes.
(d) Poems.

2. 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) 700,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 250,000.

3. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?
(a) The East Coast Cigar Company.
(b) The American Cigar Company.
(c) The Virginia Cigar Company.
(d) The Richmond Cigar Company.

4. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Mary McLeod Bethune born?

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

3. Who gave the organization trying to save Frederick Douglass's home the last $500 dollars needed to purchase the mortgage note?

4. In 1916, what group launched a campaign to save the home of Frederick Douglass from default?

5. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What desire did Mary McLeod Bethune have after leaving Presbyterian Mission School?

4. How did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of the Department of Labor make life harder for Blacks during the Depression?

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

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

7. 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?

8. What was Madame Walker known for?

9. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

10. Why did "Half-Century" in 1922 state that brown skin was more appealing?

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