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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the undercover police officer in the 1999 Texas drug raid?
(a) John Goodman.
(b) Tom Coleman.
(c) John Coleman.
(d) Tom Goodman.

2. The Voting Rights Acts was a result of what 1965 event?
(a) School desegregation.
(b) The Red Summer.
(c) The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Bloody Sunday.

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

4. 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.

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

6. In response to Cooper v. Aaron, the Governor of Arkansas did what to public schools?
(a) Closed them.
(b) Segregated them.
(c) Integrated them.
(d) Opened them.

7. In 1970, what act was renewed for another five years?
(a) The Equality Opportunity Act.
(b) The Voting Rights Act.
(c) The Civil Rights Act.
(d) The Freedom Act.

8. What was one method used to integrate schools?
(a) Busking.
(b) Flying.
(c) Busing.
(d) Biking.

9. What “top secret” report “detailed America’s descent into a second-class power”?
(a) The Johnson Report.
(b) The Garland Report.
(c) The Eisenhower Report.
(d) The Gaither Report.

10. Who was president when Sputnik was launched?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Donald J. Trump.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

12. 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 King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) The Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.

13. According to Anderson, quality education can do what for people?
(a) Improve housing conditions.
(b) Improve health outcomes.
(c) Break the cycle of poverty.
(d) Improve health outcomes, break the cycle of poverty, and improve housing conditions.

14. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) Education Equity Plan.
(b) Freedom of Choice Plan.
(c) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(d) Freedom of Education Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?

2. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?

3. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?

4. William Bradford Reynold, Assistant General Attorney for civil right under Reagan, worked to dismantle what final alternative to desegregate schools?

5. Under Reagan’s administration, a series of student aid cuts worked to reduce Black enrollment by how much?

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