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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Chicago Defender.
(c) The Mississippi Chronicle.
(d) The New York Times.

2. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?
(a) The Department of Child Welfare.
(b) The Department of Education.
(c) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(d) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

3. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?
(a) Rite of passage.
(b) Legal right.
(c) Sin
(d) Birth Right.

4. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?
(a) Bartering.
(b) Peonies.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Peonage.

5. What landmark Supreme Court case in Arkansas ruled that Brown must be obeyed?
(a) Rock v. Little.
(b) Howard v. Walters.
(c) George v. Smith.
(d) Cooper v. Aaron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?

2. During the Civil Rights Era, Black Americans began to see what?

3. What was one method used to integrate schools?

4. What does HUAC stand for?

5. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?

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