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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) T.S. Elliot.
(c) Carl Elliot.
(d) Elliot Grossman.

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

3. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?
(a) Blue v. The Department of Education.
(b) Shelley v. Kraemer.
(c) Sweet v. Detroit.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

5. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?
(a) The Department of Education.
(b) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
(c) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(d) The Department of Child Welfare.

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

7. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?
(a) USA Today.
(b) National Review.
(c) Atlantic.
(d) Time.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Malcom X.
(d) George Wallace.

14. What does NDEA stand for?
(a) National Defense of Educational Autonomy.
(b) National Distribution of Education Allocation.
(c) Natural Disaster Efforts Association.
(d) National Defense of Education Act.

15. Beginning in 1956, Southern states passed a series of law banning what organizing from operating within its borders?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The WCC.
(c) The NYPD.
(d) AAA.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?

2. What 1986 Act passed by Congress enacted mandatory sentencing in for drug offenses?

3. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?

4. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?

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

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