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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 site did Bethune put a down-payment on to start a school?
(a) A former jail-house.
(b) A former cotton plantation.
(c) A former slave auction site.
(d) A former garbage-dump site.

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

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

4. Who was quoted at the opening of the chapter "The Second World War and After"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Virginia Durr.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

5. In 1941, who was the Secretary of War that Bethune wrote to regarding the war department's failure to invite the NCNW to a meeting that was organizing women for the war effort?
(a) Michael J. Simpson.
(b) Gordon M. Myers.
(c) Henry L. Stimson.
(d) Thomas J. Watters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the chapter "Black Braintrusters," where were the first Black aviators for WWII trained?

3. What school, according to the chapter "The Radical Interracialists," was tongue-lashed by Congress for its library containing a book on socialism?

4. After the strike on the pecan factory in St. Louis ended, how much more per week did the women working there get paid?

5. Between 1915 and 1920, how many Blacks "heeded its (the North's) call" because of the southern exploitation they faced regarding labor.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.

10. 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?

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