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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What drug became prevalent in African American communities as a result of Reagan’s drug trafficking ring?
(a) Methamphetamine.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Crack.
(d) Marijuana.

4. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 1 million.

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

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

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) Improve health outcomes.
(c) Improve housing conditions.
(d) Break the cycle of poverty.

8. What powerful force did Blacks use to expose to the world how they have been treated?
(a) Social Media.
(b) Email campaigns.
(c) The media.
(d) The Internet.

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

10. 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 Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.
(c) The King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

11. 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) Hospitality.
(d) Factory.

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

13. After the launching of Sputnik, many pointed to America’s failed what?
(a) Industrial system.
(b) Education system.
(c) Military system.
(d) Solar system.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?

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

3. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?

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

5. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?

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