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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?
(a) Those who threw things at his home.
(b) Dr. Sweet’s child.
(c) Dr. Sweet, his wife and friends.
(d) Police officers who didn’t help.

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

3. Between 2008 and 2013 Shelby County Alabama redrew district boundaries, changed election procedures and voting qualifications in an effort to dismantle what?
(a) Voting Rights Act.
(b) Southern Voters Equity Act.
(c) Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Equal Opportunity Amendment.

4. 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?
(a) Interrogation.
(b) Interlocution.
(c) Intergeneration.
(d) Interposition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was president at the start of the Civil Rights Era?

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

3. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?

4. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?

5. What was Donald Trump’s campaign slogan?

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