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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?
(a) George Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) George Walters.

2. According to Anderson, quality education can do what for people?
(a) Improve health outcomes, break the cycle of poverty, and improve housing conditions.
(b) Improve health outcomes.
(c) Break the cycle of poverty.
(d) Improve housing conditions.

3. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The Mississippi Chronicle.

4. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?
(a) The Department of Child Welfare.
(b) The Department of Education.
(c) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
(d) The Department of Health and Human Services.

5. In what year was Brown v. Board of Education passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?

2. Nixon’s appointments to what worked to roll back civil rights successes?

3. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?

4. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?

5. What is the Great Migration?

(see the answer key)

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