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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was president when the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education was decided?
(a) Hoover.
(b) FDR.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eisenhower.

2. In 1906, this city in Georgia was under siege with many people being murdered and lynched.
(a) Marietta.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Athens.
(d) Savannah.

3. There was fear that if integration was wholly successful, blacks may give up distinctions they abhorred but they would also give up distinctions they ____.
(a) Supported.
(b) Owned.
(c) Cherished.
(d) Created.

4. In which two states did Kennedy attempt to force integration?
(a) South Carolina and Oklahoma.
(b) North Carolina and Arkansas.
(c) Tennessee and Georgia.
(d) Alabama and Mississippi.

5. What type of behavior would most likely be used to ensure segregation?
(a) Intuitive.
(b) Argumentative.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Humble.

6. Despite New Orleans' reputation and policies _____ days of violence broke out in the city due to racial issues.
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

7. The NAACP file suits against how many school boards throughout the Deep South?
(a) 182.
(b) 170.
(c) 150.
(d) 143.

8. What war seemed to change things for the better, even if only for a short time?
(a) Civil War.
(b) Spanish-American War.
(c) WWII.
(d) WWI.

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

10. What was the name of the landmark legislation put into effect by the president?
(a) New Deal.
(b) Gold Standard Act.
(c) Expedition Act.
(d) Interstate Commerce Act.

11. The segregation of Southern schools remained an issue even after the Supreme Court decision handed down in what year?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1957.

12. What group referred to itself as being the last civil rights group to believe in integration?
(a) KKK.
(b) AFLCIO.
(c) ACLU.
(d) NAACP.

13. Which president was responsible for eliminating discrimination for federal employees?
(a) Truman.
(b) Hoover.
(c) Wilson.
(d) FDR.

14. In 1898, a mob of _____ men burned a black town in North Carolina.
(a) 1000.
(b) 300.
(c) 600.
(d) 400.

15. Many communities placed which kind of restriction on their residents to keep their neighborhoods segregated?
(a) Deed.
(b) Rental.
(c) Income.
(d) Transportation.

Short Answer Questions

1. An attempt was made to save the Supreme Court from having to try cases involving the school integration plan. Who was charged with handling the court cases?

2. The press made headlines accusing blacks of everything from murder to ______.

3. At what college/university was there a racial riot when a black female was enrolled in classes?

4. In what year was the NAACP founded?

5. One of the cases that ended the period of this change was Plessy v. _______.

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