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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Abolished the property tax.
(c) Increased income tax.
(d) Increased property tax.

2. 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) Intergeneration.
(c) Interlocution.
(d) Interposition.

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

4. What newspaper is not one of the three referenced in regards to America’s view on Sputnik?
(a) The New Republic.
(b) Washington Post.
(c) Standard Times.
(d) New York Times.

5. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?
(a) Eugene Cook.
(b) Franklin Frazier.
(c) Ezekiel Gathings.
(d) James O. Eastland.

6. 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 Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.
(c) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(d) The Leaders of the Southern Christian Association.

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

8. Under Reagan’s administration, a series of student aid cuts worked to reduce Black enrollment by how much?
(a) 8%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 20%.

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

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

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

12. What is the name of the satellite the Soviets launched in 1957?
(a) Sputnik.
(b) USSRocket.
(c) Kremlin Kreation.
(d) Moscow Missile.

13. 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) Atlantic.
(c) National Review.
(d) Time.

14. 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) Freedom of choice.
(c) Relocation.
(d) Busing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The NAACP was not allowed to resume operations in Alabama until what year?

2. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?

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

4. What does HUAC stand for?

5. What is the title of Chapter 4?

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