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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some argued that Brown stemmed from what type of manipulation?
(a) Communist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Congressional.
(d) Republican.

3. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?
(a) $35.10.
(b) $351.00.
(c) $10.35.
(d) $3.51.

4. Which tax supports public school education?
(a) Excise.
(b) Income.
(c) Education.
(d) Property.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?

2. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?

3. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?

4. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?

5. What is the name of the satellite the Soviets launched in 1957?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe The Gray Commission Plan.

2. Describe the event that led to the Voting Rights Act.

3. What was the civil rights movement?

4. What was the Black Panther Party? When was it formed and what made it different from the previous methods of the civil rights movement?

5. Describe The Perrow Plan.

6. When did Brown v. Board of Education pass? What did it declare? What prominent attorney backed this legislation and why?

7. Describe how Anderson explains the Reagan administration's “drug crisis.” How did it begin and what unethical things were done?

8. What was the history of discriminatory practices in regards to African Americans and the vote prior to the Voting Rights Act?

9. In what ways did those who disagreed with Brown try to crush it?

10. Describe the ways in which the Reagan administration continued to roll back civil rights, according to Anderson. What examples does Anderson use in regards to education?

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