AKA MIP TEST 2023/2024 – Q&A
Marjorie Hill: ✔️Ans - First Ivy beyond the walk (died 1909) & taught
at Morgan College
Lucy Diggs Slowe: ✔️Ans - first President & drafted organization's
constitution
Where was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - Howard University in Washington,
D.C. (Miner Hall) 1908
Who founded AKA? ✔️Ans - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
When was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - January 15, 1908
Why was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - AKA was founded as an instrument to
make college experiences as meaningful & as valuable as possible in
enhancing the capacity of college trained women for significant self
realization
Who influenced Ethel Hedgeman Lyle? ✔️Ans - 2 of her teachers:
1. Tremain Robinson
2. Elizabeth Appa Cook
When was AKA incorporated? ✔️Ans - January 29, 1913
Who incorporated AKA? ✔️Ans - Nellie Quander
The first president of AKA was: ✔️Ans - Lucy Diggs Slowe
Leadership Seminar: ✔️Ans - a training session for officers and
members which is held in alternate years when the Boule does not meet
Undergraduates may hold which of the following offices? ✔️Ans -
Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and Member-at-Large
All of these are standing committees of AKA except: ✔️Ans -
scholarship
,The Director of the International Region is: ✔️Ans - International
Regional Director
A transfer of the membership must be issued by: ✔️Ans - AKA
Corporate Office
The colors of AKA are salmon pink and apple green and the official flower
is the: ✔️Ans - Pink Tea Rose
Membership in the AKA Sorority may be classified as ✔️Ans -
Undergraduate, graduate, general, associate, honorary, and life
How often does the Boule meet? ✔️Ans - Biennially (every 2 years)
The Domestic Travel Tour was: ✔️Ans - a one-week tour of cities which
are significant to Black history
The administrative division of the Boule is: ✔️Ans - the AKA Corporate
Office
What programs have been developed to assist graduate members of AKA?
✔️Ans - fellowships, financial aid, & job placement
When was the first international chapter set up and where was it?
✔️Ans - 1948, Liberia
AKA is composed of chapters of equal rank known as the graduate and
undergraduate (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
When was the first national office opened? ✔️Ans - October 8, 1949
The governing body of AKA is known as the Boule (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
The Boule is subordinate to all of the AKA Chapters (T/F)? ✔️Ans -
False- the boule is the governing body of AKA to which all chapters shall be
subordinate
, The Directorate does not have the power to carry on the business of the
sorority, when the Boule is not in session (T/F)? ✔️Ans - False- the
Directorate shall have the power to conduct the business of the sorority
when the Boule is not in session
Each region holds an annual conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
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 (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
A chapter or general member who wishes to amend the Constitution begins
the amending process by forwarding the proposed change to the Regional
Conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
Where is the sorority's Corporate Office? List the address and telephone
number: ✔️Ans - 5656 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
60637 (773-684-1282)
All of the officers on the Directorate are graduate sorors (T/F)? ✔️Ans -
False- all officers of the Directorate are graduate sorors with the exception
of the Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and two Undergraduate Members At-
Large.
The graduate advisor serves as a liaison between graduate and the
undergraduate chapter (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
The official publication of AKA Sorority is: ✔️Ans - The Ivy Leaf
Regional Conference: ✔️Ans - is a study session designed to clarify
procedures and resolve problems of the chapters within a region through
workshops, discussions, demonstrations, and other types of group activity
Initiation ✔️Ans - is the ceremony at which a candidate takes the final
vows to the sorority & declares an allegiance from which she cannot later
withdraw
List the founders: ✔️Ans - 1. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Marjorie Hill: ✔️Ans - First Ivy beyond the walk (died 1909) & taught
at Morgan College
Lucy Diggs Slowe: ✔️Ans - first President & drafted organization's
constitution
Where was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - Howard University in Washington,
D.C. (Miner Hall) 1908
Who founded AKA? ✔️Ans - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
When was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - January 15, 1908
Why was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - AKA was founded as an instrument to
make college experiences as meaningful & as valuable as possible in
enhancing the capacity of college trained women for significant self
realization
Who influenced Ethel Hedgeman Lyle? ✔️Ans - 2 of her teachers:
1. Tremain Robinson
2. Elizabeth Appa Cook
When was AKA incorporated? ✔️Ans - January 29, 1913
Who incorporated AKA? ✔️Ans - Nellie Quander
The first president of AKA was: ✔️Ans - Lucy Diggs Slowe
Leadership Seminar: ✔️Ans - a training session for officers and
members which is held in alternate years when the Boule does not meet
Undergraduates may hold which of the following offices? ✔️Ans -
Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and Member-at-Large
All of these are standing committees of AKA except: ✔️Ans -
scholarship
,The Director of the International Region is: ✔️Ans - International
Regional Director
A transfer of the membership must be issued by: ✔️Ans - AKA
Corporate Office
The colors of AKA are salmon pink and apple green and the official flower
is the: ✔️Ans - Pink Tea Rose
Membership in the AKA Sorority may be classified as ✔️Ans -
Undergraduate, graduate, general, associate, honorary, and life
How often does the Boule meet? ✔️Ans - Biennially (every 2 years)
The Domestic Travel Tour was: ✔️Ans - a one-week tour of cities which
are significant to Black history
The administrative division of the Boule is: ✔️Ans - the AKA Corporate
Office
What programs have been developed to assist graduate members of AKA?
✔️Ans - fellowships, financial aid, & job placement
When was the first international chapter set up and where was it?
✔️Ans - 1948, Liberia
AKA is composed of chapters of equal rank known as the graduate and
undergraduate (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
When was the first national office opened? ✔️Ans - October 8, 1949
The governing body of AKA is known as the Boule (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
The Boule is subordinate to all of the AKA Chapters (T/F)? ✔️Ans -
False- the boule is the governing body of AKA to which all chapters shall be
subordinate
, The Directorate does not have the power to carry on the business of the
sorority, when the Boule is not in session (T/F)? ✔️Ans - False- the
Directorate shall have the power to conduct the business of the sorority
when the Boule is not in session
Each region holds an annual conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
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 (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
A chapter or general member who wishes to amend the Constitution begins
the amending process by forwarding the proposed change to the Regional
Conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
Where is the sorority's Corporate Office? List the address and telephone
number: ✔️Ans - 5656 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
60637 (773-684-1282)
All of the officers on the Directorate are graduate sorors (T/F)? ✔️Ans -
False- all officers of the Directorate are graduate sorors with the exception
of the Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and two Undergraduate Members At-
Large.
The graduate advisor serves as a liaison between graduate and the
undergraduate chapter (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
The official publication of AKA Sorority is: ✔️Ans - The Ivy Leaf
Regional Conference: ✔️Ans - is a study session designed to clarify
procedures and resolve problems of the chapters within a region through
workshops, discussions, demonstrations, and other types of group activity
Initiation ✔️Ans - is the ceremony at which a candidate takes the final
vows to the sorority & declares an allegiance from which she cannot later
withdraw
List the founders: ✔️Ans - 1. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
