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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better hospitals.
(b) Better lawyers.
(c) Better schools.
(d) Better restaurants.

2. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
(a) Financial.
(b) Education.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Housing.

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

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

5. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?
(a) Limited job opportunities and poor quality education.
(b) Expanded job opportunities and better education.
(c) Expanded job opportunities, but not better education.
(d) Better education, but limited job opportunities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?

2. In addition to student aid cuts, Reagan reduced what school program by $1.46 billion?

3. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?

4. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?

5. What were the Black Codes?

(see the answer key)

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