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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?
(a) Better education, but limited job opportunities.
(b) Limited job opportunities and poor quality education.
(c) Expanded job opportunities and better education.
(d) Expanded job opportunities, but not better education.

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

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

9. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Constitution of Southern States.
(c) The Declaration of Constitutional Principles.
(d) The Southern Principles.

10. In what year was Brown v. Board of Education passed?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1984.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim Crow refer to?

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?

3. In which town in Texas did the controversial 1999 drug raid take place?

4. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?

5. Who was the undercover police officer in the 1999 Texas drug raid?

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