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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 much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?
(a) $6.00.
(b) $8.00.
(c) $4.00.
(d) $3.00.

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

3. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?
(a) Elizabeth Ross Haynes.
(b) Mary Jackson.
(c) Lugenia Hope.
(d) Lucy C. Laney.

5. In 1917, Ida Wells-Barnett held a memorial service for how many Black soldiers (hung in accusation for shooting Whites)?
(a) 6.
(b) 19.
(c) 11.
(d) 37.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," how many Black women marched into the White House in 1941?

2. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?

3. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?

4. According to the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation," where did Black and White women "find a common meeting ground"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to Virginia Durr, what were the two ways that the Depression affected people?

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

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

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

7. What affect did WWI have on Blacks?

8. What concerns did interracial cooperation in the workplace world bring about?

9. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

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

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