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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 novel described all kinds of women with poetic rapture?

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

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

4. By the end of 1935, how many northern cities had over 100,000 African-Americans in population?

5. In 1945, what percent of the American workforce was women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What caused a dramatic shift in the role of the woman in the work force in 1941?

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

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

10. What change did the Susan B. Anthony Amendment face in regard to the Jones Amendment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What opposition did Black women face in regard to the men of their own race and culture? Where did these issues arise from? How were the issues solved?

Essay Topic 2

Black men were the focus in many parts throughout the book. Discuss in detail the issues that Black men had with the progression of Black women in America.

-Where did their (Black men) issues arise from?

-Why did Black men not support Black women?

-How were the issues that Black men faced different from the issues that Black women faced?

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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