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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to student aid cuts, Reagan reduced what school program by $1.46 billion?
(a) Art.
(b) Physical Education.
(c) Music.
(d) Nutrition.

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

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

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

5. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

6. In which decade did the civil rights movement begin?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

7. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 10.
(b) 0.
(c) 150.
(d) 28.

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

9. The southern closure of school affected whom?
(a) Black and white Students.
(b) White students only.
(c) Blacks students only.
(d) Had no effect on students.

10. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?
(a) Freedom of choice.
(b) Integration.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Private schools.

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

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

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

14. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.
(b) The Virginia Education Commission.
(c) The Gray Commission.
(d) The Garland initiative.

15. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?
(a) A foreign language.
(b) Racially coded language.
(c) Racially charged language.
(d) Telepathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two Supreme Court Justices during both the Nixon and Reagan administration supported legislation that would roll back civil rights?

2. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?

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

4. What was the name of the person whose refusal to give up his/her bus seat in the 1960s sparked the civil rights movement?

5. What is the title of Chapter 4?

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