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

2. 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) Pies and cakes.
(b) Poems.
(c) Books.
(d) Songs.

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

4. In 1915, how many students graduated from Daytona School for Girls?
(a) 17.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?

3. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?

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

5. In 1945, what percent of the American workforce was women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What was Madame Walker known for?

4. What affect did WWI have on Blacks?

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

6. What caused a dramatic shift in the role of the woman in the work force in 1941?

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

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

9. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.

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

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