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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Intergeneration.
(b) Interposition.
(c) Interlocution.
(d) Interrogation.

2. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 0.
(b) 10.
(c) 28.
(d) 150.

3. In Virginia, what percent of Blacks attended desegregated schools?
(a) 25.2.
(b) 15.
(c) 99.9.
(d) 1.63.

4. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?
(a) Racially charged language.
(b) Racially coded language.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) A foreign language.

5. Which President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Abe Lincoln.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

6. How many African Americans were on the jury after the 1999 Texas drug raid?
(a) 12.
(b) 0.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

7. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?
(a) 3.5.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.9.
(d) 7.2.

8. What was one of the events that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(a) The murder of two young girls in Birmingham, AL.
(b) The killing of Michael Brown.
(c) The murder of George Floyd.
(d) The killing of Amadou Diallo.

9. Who was president at the start of the Civil Rights Era?
(a) Obama.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Trump.
(d) Nixon.

10. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?
(a) Government.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Hospitality.
(d) Factory.

11. In which town in Texas did the controversial 1999 drug raid take place?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Tulia.
(c) Houston.
(d) Austin.

12. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?
(a) Migration.
(b) Violence.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Stop and frisk.

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

14. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?
(a) $3.51.
(b) $351.00.
(c) $35.10.
(d) $10.35.

15. A March 1973 court decision ruled that “there is no fundamental right” to what in the Constitution?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Housing.
(c) Healthcare.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one method used to integrate schools?

3. Due to the resistance in both the North and South to integrating schools, Congress had to pass what law?

4. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?

5. What does NDEA stand for?

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