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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a group persecuted by the Klan in the twentieth century?
(a) Methodists.
(b) Union organizers.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Jews.

2. What is the central action of economics?
(a) Measurement.
(b) Assessment.
(c) Theory.
(d) Prediction.

3. Researchers determining whether teachers are encouraging cheating on standardized tests observe classes over how many years?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. What Supreme Court case involved Norma McCorvey as plaintiff?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Gibbons v. Ogden.

5. How many times a year are elite sumo tournaments held?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 6 times.
(c) 10 times.
(d) Once.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what city is Norma McCorvey?

2. From what Southern Klan stronghold did Stetson Kennedy hail?

3. The amount of money spent on every season's election campaigns is the same as the amount spent by Americans yearly on what?

4. Which racist American figure is the focus of the final passage of this chapter?

5. How do teachers most often cheat on standardized tests?

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