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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Declining Years of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Silent South?"
(a) Cable.
(b) Blair.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Fitzgerald.

2. What caused the biggest conflict between the beliefs of that particular culture and the culture of the blacks?
(a) Education.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Civil Rights.
(d) Ownership.

3. The next phase was not governed by federal law. It was governed by which of the following?
(a) Religious preference.
(b) Military force.
(c) Political conservatives.
(d) Socio-economic progression.

4. What trait did both the Democrat and Republican parties share at the time?
(a) Fending off foreign enemies.
(b) Work toward desegregation.
(c) Belief in white supremacy.
(d) Uniting North and South.

5. Whose ghost is predicted to haunt a troubled people although he is long dead?
(a) Jim Crow.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Orville Faubus.
(d) Martin Luther King.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Northern states allowed black men to vote at this time?

2. Which president was responsible for eliminating discrimination for federal employees?

3. Many people compared the South to the politics of what other country?

4. What was the name of the policy that stated that slave owners should remain in charge because they knew best?

5. Racists often referred to Negroes as lacking which of the following?

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