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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. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percent of youth did she find to be Black?
(a) 31%.
(b) 23%.
(c) 13%.
(d) 4%.

2. What magazine "editorialized that brown skin was . . . more appealing to Whites"?
(a) "The Crisis."
(b) "Ebony."
(c) "Half-Century."
(d) "Rapture."

3. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?
(a) Marriage rate.
(b) Birth rate.
(c) Divorce rate.
(d) Suicide rate.

4. Why did the magazine of the NAACP in 1919 state that Black women felt pride for Black men during the race riots?
(a) Because the Black man had "not backed down from each other."
(b) Because the Black man had "stood up for the Black woman."
(c) Because the Balck men had "stood like men."
(d) Because the Black men had "taken out the White man for once."

5. In 1935, what leader of the Texas state committee insisted that Texas Whites would object to an integrated Texas community?
(a) Paul Minors.
(b) Martin B. Hidgins.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?

2. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?

3. Who was the first Black woman named to the federal bench and also became the Manhattan Borough President in 1954?

4. What state law covered under federal legislation, declared that one spouse must resign if the other was gainfully employed?

5. During Bethune's travel through 21 states, what percentage of young Blacks were on relief?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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