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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) The Police Department.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) His bank account.
(d) Private education.

2. Following Brown v. Board, great pains were taken to stop Blacks from doing what?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Voting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Driving.

3. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?
(a) The United States military.
(b) Anti-Sandinista guerrillas.
(c) The California Police Department.
(d) The Reagan administration.

4. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?
(a) 56%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 98%.
(d) 25%.

5. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The Leaders of the Southern Christian Association.
(b) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(c) The Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.
(d) The King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

6. William Bradford Reynold, Assistant General Attorney for civil right under Reagan, worked to dismantle what final alternative to desegregate schools?
(a) Increasing property taxes.
(b) Relocation.
(c) Busing.
(d) Freedom of choice.

7. As a means of targeting NAACP members, what state required that the organization filed membership lists?
(a) Virginia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Alabama.

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

9. Which tax supports public school education?
(a) Property.
(b) Excise.
(c) Education.
(d) Income.

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) Teaching.
(b) Hospitality.
(c) Government.
(d) Factory.

11. What landmark Supreme Court case in Arkansas ruled that Brown must be obeyed?
(a) Howard v. Walters.
(b) Cooper v. Aaron.
(c) George v. Smith.
(d) Rock v. Little.

12. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?
(a) Black teachers.
(b) Black parents.
(c) White teachers.
(d) White parents.

13. What does Jim Crow refer to?
(a) Separate but equal laws.
(b) The head of the NAACP.
(c) Equal Education Laws.
(d) Anti-racist laws.

14. Which attorney argued in favor of Brown v. Board?
(a) Marshall Thurman.
(b) Strom Thurman.
(c) Marshal Thomas.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1970, what act was renewed for another five years?

2. What drug became prevalent in African American communities as a result of Reagan’s drug trafficking ring?

3. People began to see America’s educational struggles as a direct result of what?

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

5. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?

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