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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?
(a) 25%.
(b) 98%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 56%.
2. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?
(a) James O. Eastland.
(b) Ezekiel Gathings.
(c) Franklin Frazier.
(d) Eugene Cook.
3. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?
(a) Cocaine possession got more time than crack.
(b) Crack possession got more time than cocaine.
(c) Cocaine was considered legal.
(d) Possession of either drugs got the same amount of time.
4. 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) Busing.
(d) Relocation.
5. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?
(a) AARP.
(b) CIA.
(c) YMCA.
(d) NAACP.
6. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) George Walters.
(c) George Washington.
(d) George Jefferson.
7. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Virginia Education Commission.
(b) The Garland initiative.
(c) The Gray Commission.
(d) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.
8. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?
(a) $10.35.
(b) $35.10.
(c) $3.51.
(d) $351.00.
9. Under Reagan’s administration, a series of student aid cuts worked to reduce Black enrollment by how much?
(a) 80%.
(b) 8%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 35%.
10. According to Anderson, quality education can do what for people?
(a) Improve health outcomes.
(b) Improve health outcomes, break the cycle of poverty, and improve housing conditions.
(c) Improve housing conditions.
(d) Break the cycle of poverty.
11. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
(a) Housing.
(b) Education.
(c) Financial.
(d) Drugs.
12. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 1 million.
13. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) The Police Department.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) His bank account.
(d) Private education.
14. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?
(a) Atlantic.
(b) National Review.
(c) Time.
(d) USA Today.
15. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?
(a) The Civil Rights Committee.
(b) NAACP.
(c) The KKK.
(d) The Black Panther Party.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was president when Sputnik was launched?
2. In Virginia, what percent of Blacks attended desegregated schools?
3. What does NDEA stand for?
4. After the launching of Sputnik, many pointed to America’s failed what?
5. Which President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?
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