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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Gray Commission.
(b) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.
(c) The Garland initiative.
(d) The Virginia Education Commission.

2. When the Fourth Circuit Ruled that schools must integrate by 1959, county supervisors did what to divert money from public schools?
(a) Increased income tax.
(b) Increased property tax.
(c) Abolished the property tax.
(d) Reduced income tax.

3. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Firewood.
(c) Kindling.
(d) Incitement.

4. The NAACP was not allowed to resume operations in Alabama until what year?
(a) 2014.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1956.

5. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1746.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Brown v. Board of Education passed?

2. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?

3. What word describes the claim made in the Deep South and Virginia stating they did not have to follow federal laws with which they disagreed?

4. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?

5. As a means of targeting NAACP members, what state required that the organization filed membership lists?

(see the answer key)

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