DELTA SIGMA THETA PRACTICE TEST UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTION WITH ANSWERS
Mission Statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Delta sigma theta sorority incorporated is
an organization of college educated women committed to the constructive development of its
members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black community
At what national convention was Grand Chapter created? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1st
national convention
To whom or to what group is the jewel Temperance dedicated? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅National Staff
What was the purpose of the National Vigilance Committee? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅To keep in touch with political and civic activities of the country as they
affect the negro race
Name the Nine Jewels - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Compassion, Courtesy, Dedication,
Fellowship, Fidelity, Honesty, Justice, Purity, Temperance
Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated in what year? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1930
The Jewel Compassion is dedicated to whom or what group in Delta? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Founders
Which Honorary Member wrote the Delta Oath? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Mary Church
Terrell
What three chapters were in attendance at the First National Convention? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon
,What is the meaning of Jewel Dedication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅To a noble cause is
one of humanity's highest calling and an act of consecration
Name the elements of the Minerva Circle of Identify? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅sisterhood, Black, college, women, public service
Who designed the Sorority Crest? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅F. Ailene Marks and
Jeannette Tripplet Jones
On what university campus was Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founded? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Howard University
Name the writers of the Delta Sigma Theta National Hymn - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert
What were the first two graduate (now called alumnae) chapters authorized by Delta Sigma
Theta? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅New York City and Washington D.C.
What is the purpose of Jubilee Year established in 1929? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅hundreds of Delta women would rededicate themselves to the sorority
Please name the four funds established under first national president Sadie Tanner Mossell
Alexander - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Housing fund, sinking fund, scholarship award
fund, college tuition fund
How many principles provide the overall framework for all of the initiation activities? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nine
Who was the first Honorary Member initiated into DST? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Nannie Burroughs
, At what convention was Mary McLeod Bethune initiated? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅5th
convention
The jewels representing the nine cardinal virtues are located on which Greek letter on the Delta
Pin? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The Sigma
I will close my ears - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅and seal my lips to slanderous gossip
I will take an active interest in the welfare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅of my country,
using my influence toward the enactment of laws for the protection of the unfortunate and weak
and for the repeal of those depriving human beings of their privilieges and rights
I will never belittle any race - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅and will try to persuade others to
take the same just stand
Born in El Paso, Texas; featured in the Crisis Magazine in 1913; reporter for the Alpha Chapter,
gifted singer and actress who harnessed her vocal powers and sang for TV shows - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Zephyr Chisom Carter
Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas; member of the Baltimore Branch of the
National Association of College Women; Dunbar - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Vashti
Turley Murphy
First of the Founders to enter into the Omega Omega on February 17, 1919 - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Mamie Reddy Rose
First sergeant-at-arms of the Alpha Chapter; charter member of the Dallas Alumnae chapter -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Winona Cargile
Alexander
QUESTION WITH ANSWERS
Mission Statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Delta sigma theta sorority incorporated is
an organization of college educated women committed to the constructive development of its
members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black community
At what national convention was Grand Chapter created? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1st
national convention
To whom or to what group is the jewel Temperance dedicated? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅National Staff
What was the purpose of the National Vigilance Committee? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅To keep in touch with political and civic activities of the country as they
affect the negro race
Name the Nine Jewels - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Compassion, Courtesy, Dedication,
Fellowship, Fidelity, Honesty, Justice, Purity, Temperance
Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated in what year? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1930
The Jewel Compassion is dedicated to whom or what group in Delta? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Founders
Which Honorary Member wrote the Delta Oath? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Mary Church
Terrell
What three chapters were in attendance at the First National Convention? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Alpha, Gamma, Epsilon
,What is the meaning of Jewel Dedication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅To a noble cause is
one of humanity's highest calling and an act of consecration
Name the elements of the Minerva Circle of Identify? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅sisterhood, Black, college, women, public service
Who designed the Sorority Crest? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅F. Ailene Marks and
Jeannette Tripplet Jones
On what university campus was Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founded? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Howard University
Name the writers of the Delta Sigma Theta National Hymn - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert
What were the first two graduate (now called alumnae) chapters authorized by Delta Sigma
Theta? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅New York City and Washington D.C.
What is the purpose of Jubilee Year established in 1929? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅hundreds of Delta women would rededicate themselves to the sorority
Please name the four funds established under first national president Sadie Tanner Mossell
Alexander - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Housing fund, sinking fund, scholarship award
fund, college tuition fund
How many principles provide the overall framework for all of the initiation activities? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nine
Who was the first Honorary Member initiated into DST? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Nannie Burroughs
, At what convention was Mary McLeod Bethune initiated? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅5th
convention
The jewels representing the nine cardinal virtues are located on which Greek letter on the Delta
Pin? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The Sigma
I will close my ears - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅and seal my lips to slanderous gossip
I will take an active interest in the welfare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅of my country,
using my influence toward the enactment of laws for the protection of the unfortunate and weak
and for the repeal of those depriving human beings of their privilieges and rights
I will never belittle any race - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅and will try to persuade others to
take the same just stand
Born in El Paso, Texas; featured in the Crisis Magazine in 1913; reporter for the Alpha Chapter,
gifted singer and actress who harnessed her vocal powers and sang for TV shows - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Zephyr Chisom Carter
Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas; member of the Baltimore Branch of the
National Association of College Women; Dunbar - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Vashti
Turley Murphy
First of the Founders to enter into the Omega Omega on February 17, 1919 - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Mamie Reddy Rose
First sergeant-at-arms of the Alpha Chapter; charter member of the Dallas Alumnae chapter -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Winona Cargile
Alexander
