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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. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?
(a) 239.
(b) 100.
(c) 179.
(d) 301.

2. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percentage of young Blacks were on relief?
(a) 76%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 27%.

3. What did the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation" name as the most "pressing reason to draw out the poison of racial antagonism"?
(a) Economy.
(b) Social justice.
(c) Euqality.
(d) Welfare.

4. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.
(a) 12th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 22nd.
(d) 36th.

5. Who ran unsuccessfully for president of the NACW in 1924?
(a) Mary Church Terrell.
(b) Ida Well-Barnett.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?

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

3. During the 1920s, what rate decreased?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Madame Walker known for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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