Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority History. How much do you know about AKA?
- 1.Define Sorority
- A.
A group of women
- B.
Society of women with selective membership limited by the invitation of persons who are already members
- C.
A women's student organization formed chiefly for social purposes and having a name consisting of Greek letters
- D.
A club for college women
- 2.Define Boule
- A.
Periodic assembly of the total membership
- B.
legislative council
- C.
National meeting
- D.
Meeting held yearly
- 3.Ivy _______ the wall: Deceased Member
- 4.Directorate
- A.
Governing body
- B.
Greek terminology
- C.
Board of Directors
- D.
President and legislators
- 5.When and where was Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded?
- A.
January 14, 1908 Howard University
- B.
January 29, 1908 Howard University
- C.
January 15,1908 Howard University
- D.
January 3, 1909 Howard University
- 6.When was Alpha Kappa Alpha Incorporated
- A.
January 29, 1908
- B.
January 29, 1913
- C.
January 29, 1915
- D.
January 29 1910
- 7.Ivy Leaf Magazine was first published
- A.
1920
- B.
1921
- C.
1926
- D.
1918
- 8.Motto: By _________ and By __________.
- 9.Who is the chief officer of the Sorority?
- A.
Supreme Basileus
- B.
Basileus
- C.
Anti Basileus
- D.
Directorate
- 10.In _______ Hall, AKA firsr ritualistic initiation is held.
- A.
Bethel
- B.
Lena
- C.
Miner
- 11._____________ becomes the 1st Supreme Basileus.
- A.
Nellie Quander
- B.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
- C.
Marjorie Hill
- D.
Norma Boyd
- 12.Sorority's first national organizer, charters the second chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha: Beta Chapter, Chicago
- A.
Alice Murray
- B.
Joanna Berry
- C.
Beulah Burke
- D.
Marjorie Hill
- 13.Period set aside each January to commemorate the Sorority's founding with a program of African American history, literature, music or art, that promotes and increases race consciousness.
- A.
Founders Week
- B.
Boule
- C.
National Conference
- 14.Co-Created organization namemottocolors
- A.
Anna Easter Brown
- B.
Beulah Elizabeth Burke
- C.
Lavinia Norman
- D.
Lucy Slowe
- 15.Organization's "Incorporators"
- A.
Lavina Norma, Lucy Slowe, Marie Woolfolk Taylor
- B.
Joanna Berry, Norma Boyd, Ethel Jones, Sara Meriweather
- C.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, Beulah and Lillie Burke, Lavinia Norma
- D.
Nellie Quander, Norma Boyd, Julia Brooks, Ethel Jones Mowbray, Nellie Pratt Russell, Minnie Smith
- 16.When was the first national office opened
- A.
October 11, 1949
- B.
October 10, 1945
- C.
October 8, 1949
- D.
October 13, 1945
- 17.Heritage Series on Black Women
- A.
The series of brochures detailing the accomplishments of Black Women
- B.
Found inside of the Ivy Leaf
- C.
Brochures distrubed at Boule
- 18.Programs developed to assist graduate members of AKA
- A.
Fellowships, financial aid, Job Placement
- B.
Job placement, friendship, education
- C.
Job training, Educational resources, Fellowship
- 19.Each region holds an annual conference
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.The Regional Conference has the power to make recommendations to the Directorate or to the Boule and to propose amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws of the sorority
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Chapter or general member who wishes to amend the Constitution begins the amending process by forwarding the proposed change to the Regional Conference.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.All of the officers on the Directorate are graduate sorors
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.The governing body of AKA is known as the Boule
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.A _____________ is a study session designed to clarify procedures and resolve problens of the chapters within a region through workshops, discussions, demonstrations and other types of group activity
- A.
Boule
- B.
National Conference
- C.
Regional Conference
- 25.The 3 undergraduate officers on the Directorate
- A.
Supreme Basileus, Anti Undergraduate Basileus, and 1 undergraduate member
- B.
Second Supreme Anti-Basileus, and two-undergraduate Members at large
- C.
Basileus, and 2 undergraduate members at large
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