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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What group in 1927 invited Mary McLeod Bethune to attend a meeting held and hosted by Eleanor Roosevelt?

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

4. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Madame Walker known for?

3. What desire did Mary McLeod Bethune have after leaving Presbyterian Mission School?

4. What were the ratio differences between young Black women and young White women over the age of fourteen working?

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

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

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

9. What accomplishments did the NACW have by 1916?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What impact did education have in the lives of Black women? Who were the key people involved in ensuring education for Black women was available? What did proper and higher education do for the advancement of Black women?

Essay Topic 2

Part two of the book was dedicated to the "new negro" woman. Discuss in detail who the "new negro" was. Why did she have to change? What steps were required for her to become a new woman? What problems did she face as she redefined who she was?

Essay Topic 3

How did mainstream society depict Black women in media? What issues did Black women have with these depictions? What did Black women do to change these media representations?

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