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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Owned.
(b) Supported.
(c) Created.
(d) Cherished.

2. Another powerful force mentioned by the author was a movement involving black churches. What term is used to describe the movement?
(a) Preachers Progress.
(b) Evangelist Expansion.
(c) Social gospel.
(d) Religious Movement.

3. What is commonly known as the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) I Have a Dream.
(b) All Men Are Created Equal.
(c) One Day.
(d) In the Eyes of God.

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

5. The NAACP was working in tandem with which other organization?
(a) ACLU.
(b) Reconstructionists.
(c) KKK.
(d) Urban League.

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

7. In what year were the Slaughter House Cases tried?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1885.

8. Men involved in scientific pursuits are often referred to as "men of _____ and science."
(a) Education.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Letters.

9. What word is used to mean something that is required by law?
(a) Established.
(b) Mandated.
(c) Introduced.
(d) Instituted.

10. The main conflict regarding the case and the Supreme Court decision originated in which city?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Fort Worth.
(d) Montgomery.

11. How many cases eventually backed up, forcing the Supreme Court to step in?
(a) 19.
(b) 23.
(c) 28.
(d) 12.

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

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

14. Which is not part of the group that referred to blacks as being lazy?
(a) Anthropologists.
(b) Sociologists.
(c) Biologists.
(d) Neurologists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did the Ku Klux Klan reach the height of its power?

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

3. The appointment of a(n) _________ in South Carolina fueled even more racial violence.

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

5. Southern Progressives are credited with helping to elect _____ as President of the US.

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