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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word was used to describe the comments and promises made by both political parties during the 1956 conventions?
(a) Noncommittal.
(b) Flavorless.
(c) Invalid.
(d) Vacuous.

2. In which state did the renaissance begin?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) New York.
(d) Maryland.

3. In what year was there a struggle in regards to a Southern state and the Jim Crow law?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1898.

4. Racists often referred to Negroes as lacking which of the following?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Skills.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Common sense.

5. People were careful to note the impact of the post-war struggle between democracy and _______.
(a) Socialism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

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

8. According to this group, people tended to separate to fall back on their own:
(a) Independence.
(b) Species.
(c) Folkways.
(d) Morals.

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

10. What devastating period in history also assisted in easing racial tensions?
(a) WWII.
(b) Presidential assassination.
(c) Great Depression.
(d) Stock Market Crash.

11. What word/phrase was used by Virginia Dabney in reference to a group of white troublemakers?
(a) Thugs.
(b) Rabble-rousers.
(c) Scrappers.
(d) Hooligans.

12. What was the name of the agreement reached between the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP and the Atlanta School Board?
(a) Second Atlanta Comprise.
(b) The King Pact.
(c) Integration Charter.
(d) NAACP/ASB Treaty.

13. The other famous case mentioned during this time was Williams against an American state. What state was it?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Arkanasas.

14. What was the name of the governor that violated the federal mandate to allow integration in the school?
(a) King.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Faubus.
(d) Montrose.

15. Which president signed the Voting Rights Bill into law?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not mentioned in the list of things blacks are still being denied?

2. It was said that after the war, people were more interested in the pursuit or prosperity as well as:

3. What was a common name used to describe black neighborhoods?

4. In what year was the Civil Rights Act made into law?

5. Many communities placed which kind of restriction on their residents to keep their neighborhoods segregated?

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