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

2. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?
(a) Elliot Grossman.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) T.S. Elliot.
(d) Carl Elliot.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?

4. After the launching of Sputnik, many pointed to America’s failed what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

2. What was the National Defense of Education Act? Why was it written? Name a key player involved in its implementation. Did this person believe in equal education for all?

3. Describe what happened in Tulia, Texas in 1999. Who was involved? Why was it controversial?

4. Describe The Perrow Plan.

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. How did Nixon and others during his presidency try to redefine racism?

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

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