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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
(a) Education.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Housing.
(d) Financial.

2. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?
(a) It educated.
(b) It collapsed.
(c) It thrived.
(d) It evolved.

3. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Malcom X.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) George Wallace.

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

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

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

7. During the time of the Civil Rights Act, the President tried to redefine racism as an individual what?
(a) Act.
(b) Aberration.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Inclination.

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

9. In which town in Texas did the controversial 1999 drug raid take place?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Austin.
(c) Tulia.
(d) Houston.

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

11. 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 Education Act.
(c) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(d) Freedom of Choice Plan.

12. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) His bank account.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) Private education.
(d) The Police Department.

13. 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.

14. A March 1973 court decision ruled that “there is no fundamental right” to what in the Constitution?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Healthcare.
(c) Education.
(d) Housing.

15. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(b) The Leaders of the Southern Christian Association.
(c) The King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) The Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In an effort to prevent school integration, The Texas Council proposed a Constitutional Amendment that would require whom to answer to Congress?

2. What landmark Supreme Court case in Arkansas ruled that Brown must be obeyed?

3. Following Brown v. Board, great pains were taken to stop Blacks from doing what?

4. The Voting Rights Acts was a result of what 1965 event?

5. The objective of the White Citizens Council that sprang up throughout the South was to do what?

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