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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 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"?
(a) "Women's Day."
(b) "Time."
(c) "The Truth."
(d) "The Messenger."

2. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?
(a) Countee Cullen.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

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

4. According to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," where did Black and White women "find a common meeting ground"?
(a) Religious orientation.
(b) Women in the workplace issues.
(c) Sexual orientation.
(d) Patriarchial issues.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?

2. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?

3. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?

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

5. How many American women were working 1945?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the Daytona School for Girls between 1915 and 1927?

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

5. What preparations did Lugenia Burns Hope make for the CIC meeting in Memphis?

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

7. How did Mary McLeod Bethune finance the Daytona School for Girls?

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

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

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

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