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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. In what year did Booker T. Washington die?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1915.

2. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) William and Mary University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?
(a) 124.
(b) 3.
(c) 15.
(d) 65.

4. In what year did Legenia Burns Hope organize the Atlanta Neighborhod Union?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

5. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) AWM.
(b) DESM.
(c) NACW.
(d) PWA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the NAACP's magazine?

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

3. In what year was the first segregated YWCA chartered in Ohio?

4. What was sold to raise part of the rest of the money needed to finance the school that Bethune needed to start her school?

5. How many American women were working 1945?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. What was Madame Walker known for?

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