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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?
(a) A foreign language.
(b) Racially coded language.
(c) Racially charged language.
(d) Telepathy.

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

4. In Virginia, what percent of Blacks attended desegregated schools?
(a) 99.9.
(b) 1.63.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.2.

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

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

7. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?
(a) Time.
(b) USA Today.
(c) Atlantic.
(d) National Review.

8. Nixon’s appointments to what worked to roll back civil rights successes?
(a) NYPD.
(b) Congress.
(c) Supreme Court.
(d) Department of Education.

9. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?
(a) AARP.
(b) YMCA.
(c) NAACP.
(d) CIA.

10. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?
(a) Freedom of choice.
(b) Integration.
(c) Private schools.
(d) Segregation.

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

12. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

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

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

15. What was one method used to integrate schools?
(a) Busking.
(b) Biking.
(c) Busing.
(d) Flying.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Bradford Reynold, Assistant General Attorney for civil right under Reagan, worked to dismantle what final alternative to desegregate schools?

2. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?

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

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

5. What was one of the events that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

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