DELTA ACHIEVEMENT TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Sorority sacred motto - Answers- Induction of new members
What convention was the grand chapter created - Answers- 1st National Convention
The 9 jewels of Delta Sigma Theta - Answers- Compassion, Courtesy, Dedication,
Fellowship, Fidelity, Honesty, Justice, Purity, Temperance
What year was delta sigma theta incorporated - Answers- 1930
Courtesy jewel is dedicated to who - Answers- The mothers of the Deltas
Who wrote the Delta Oath? - Answers- Mary Church Terrell
5 components of the Minerva circle - Answers- Sisterhood, Black, College, Women,
Public Service
Who wrote the Delta Hymn? - Answers- Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert
First 2 graduate chapters - Answers- New York City and Washington DC
Dedicated to the deceased Sorors - Answers- Purity
How many principles provide framework for all the initiation activities - Answers- 9
first three honorary members - Answers- Nannie H Boroughs, Gabrielle Pelham, and
Mary Church Terrell
What year was Mary McLeod Bethune initiated - Answers- 1923
Where are the jewels located - Answers- On the sigma
Journalist and senior correspondent honorary member for PBS news hour - Answers-
Gwen Ifill
When was the women's suffrage march - Answers- March 1913
Became a music teacher in the Washington, DC school system (founder) - Answers-
Olive Claire Jones
What convention was the Delta Hymn adopted - Answers- 6th
Noble cause jewel one of humanities highest callings - Answers- Dedication
What university was Delta founded on - Answers- Howard University
, Who designed the Sorority Crest? - Answers- F. Ailene Marks and Jeannette Tripplet
Jones
The only Founder to receive a doctorate degree - Answers- Eliza Pearl Shippen
Served as the Recording Secretary of the Alpha Chapter; taught Claflin College in
Orangeburg, SC - Answers- Edith Motte Young
First sergeant at arms of the alpha chapter, charter member of Dallas alumnae chapter -
Answers- Frederica Chase Dodd
First Custodian (historian) of the Alpha Chapter; was the first black social worker with
the New York City and New York County charities - Answers- Winona Cargile Alexander
presented by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to parents at the John Wesley AME Zion
Church in 1945, had interactions with multiple US Presidents including William H Taft
and John F Kennedy - Answers- Florence Letcher Toms
Gifted singer and actress who harnessed her vocal powers and sang for TV shows
(founder) - Answers- Zephyr Chishom Carter
First black teacher in Richmond County and charter member of of Queens alumnae
chapter, first VP of Alpha Chapter - Answers- Ethel Cuff Black
Was from a small town in Beta, South Carolina (founder) - Answers- Mamie Reddy
Rose
Excellent musician and graduated as Valedictorian of the Teachers College - Answers-
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
Helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage
(founder) - Answers- Jimmie Bugg Middleton
Accomplished linguist who spoke German, French, Greek, and Latin; designed
ceremony for inducting honorary members; first woman of the campus paper, The
Howard University Journal - Answers- Madree Penn White
Last surviving founder in 1993, the first black graduate of Washingtonville High School -
Answers- Naomi Sewell Richardson
Born in Illinois; constant supporter of Alpha Chapter - Answers- Marguerite Young
Alexander
Born in Winfield, Kansas, and participated in the March on Washington in 1913 and
1981 - Answers- Bertha Pitts Campbell
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