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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used for a society in which the people of highest rank are the ones in charge?
(a) Noblesse Oblige.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Gentrification.
(d) Savoir faire.

2. What was the name of the policy that stated that slave owners should remain in charge because they knew best?
(a) Obfuscation.
(b) Plantationism.
(c) Orientation.
(d) Paternalism.

3. Which of the following groups were not required to follow the new segregation laws?
(a) Military.
(b) Churches.
(c) Labor unions.
(d) Restaurants.

4. What was the term used to define government officials put in charge of the new laws regarding former slaves?
(a) Redeemed.
(b) Resurrected.
(c) Reformed.
(d) Relinquished.

5. What is the name of the principle that ended in an unstable alliance?
(a) Integration.
(b) Indeterminate.
(c) Calculable.
(d) Fusion.

6. A small minority of domestic slaves developed what with their masters?
(a) Trust.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Intimate relationships.

7. From which state did the court case originate?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Kansas.

8. In the late 1800s blacks were accepted, or at least tolerated, where?
(a) Politics.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Schools.
(d) Buses.

9. Which of the following is not on the list of phenomena that began to appear in the late 1800s?
(a) Brutality.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Exploitation.
(d) Cruelty.

10. That particular type of philosophy was often referred to as a(n) ______ philosophy.
(a) Purposeless.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Uninformed.
(d) Viable.

11. The quote provided in the introduction discusses where the Jim Crow System was effective. Which is not mentioned in the quote?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Trains and buses.
(c) Cemeteries.
(d) Restaurants.

12. What was another name for the outdated laws that pigeon-holed blacks?
(a) Reprehensible.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Plantation laws.
(d) Slavery Act of 1861.

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

14. What is the word or phrase that generally means the way things are?
(a) Stationary.
(b) Ipso facto.
(c) Status quo.
(d) Regulated.

15. What is the word that best describes the members of the Republican party that pushed for total integration?
(a) Right Wing.
(b) Radical.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

1. Liberals fought hard against which of the following notions?

2. What culture had and has a belief that it is superior to the black culture?

3. What is another name given to the Great Compromise?

4. What is it called when a prevalent body or thought rules the land?

5. What was never even considered between slaves and land owners?

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