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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 school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(b) Washington Institute.
(c) Cookman Institute.
(d) Frankman's Boys School.

2. Whom did critics in 1900 state was the author of "the most powerful protest novel . . . with the exception of Ann Perry"?
(a) Francis Burks.
(b) Pauline Hopkins.
(c) Laura Sterns.
(d) Mary May Wright.

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

4. What did the chapter "A Search for Self" compare postwar America to?
(a) "An unending tunnel."
(b) "A dense forest."
(c) "A hunt with no prey."
(d) "A hall of mirrors."

5. What was the first theatrical production to feature attractively costumed, glamorous Black women?
(a) The Song of the South Show.
(b) The Dixie Mason Show.
(c) The Southern Black Belle.
(d) The Creole Show.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?

2. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.

3. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percent of youth did she find to be Black?

4. What poet did Bethune hire as an assistant for her position as the Negro Affairs director?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

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

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

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

9. What did the radical atmosphere of the 1920's make possible for Blacks to initiate in the political arena?

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

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