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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Cuban missile crisis.
B American University speech.
C construction of the Berlin Wall.
D escalation of the Vietnam War.
Question #2
A increase the size of the black population in the United States.
B increase regional diversity among new immigrants.
C decrease the overall number of new immigrants.
D guarantee that the majority of immigrants came from Europe.
Question #3
A Third World Liberation Front
B Young Americans for Freedom
C La Raza
D Young Lords Party
Question #4
A sexual freedom.
B consciousness-raising.
C beauty standards.
D equal employment.
Question #5
A strengthening states’ rights.
B supporting federal authority.
C enhancing police powers.
D protecting individual freedoms.
Question #6
A disillusionment with nonviolent protest actions.
B Governor Wallace’s support for voting rights.
C the banning of protest marches in Alabama.
D passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Question #7
A white college students.
B black college students.
C rural black youngsters.
D federal officials.
Question #8
A a backlash against civil rights gains.
B opposition to the progressive income tax.
C their desire for small government.
D their commitment to states’ rights.
Question #9
A The desire to distract American attention from Cuba
B Kennedy’s decision to deploy additional American troops in Europe
C A desire to retaliate for the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba
D Nikita Khrushchev’s determination to undermine President Kennedy’s confidence
Question #10
A success of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
B popularity of the Rolling Stones’ raunchy songs.
C 1966 Supreme Court decision on pornography.
D sexual liberation of young American women.
Question #11
A was distracted by the conflict in Vietnam.
B wasn’t pressured by black activists.
C made foreign affairs his top priority.
D feared alienating southern Democrats.
Question #12
A states could not ban the sale of contraceptives.
B the police had to inform suspects of their rights.
C lawyers had to be provided for poor defendants.
D states could not prohibit interracial marriage.
Question #13
A easing restrictions on the distribution of pornography.
B protecting individual rights and freedoms.
C enhancing the rights of criminal defendants.
D ending discrimination against women and minorities.
Question #14
A a lack of Cuban support for overthrowing Fidel’s Castro regime.
B President John F. Kennedy’s ambivalence about intervening in Cuban politics.
C outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.
D the involvement of Soviet troops in turning back the invasion.
Question #15
A John Lewis.
B Bayard Rustin.
C A. Philip Randolph.
D Martin Luther King Jr.
Question #16
A two million to 5 million.
B three million to nine million.
C 8 million to 12 million.
D 500,000 to five million.
Question #17
A As a path toward racial equality
B As a central feminist strategy
C As essential for transforming personal and social behavior
D As another demonstration of male dominance over women
Question #18
A employment.
B bilingual education.
C nationalist pride.
D voting rights.
Question #19
A the civil rights movement would continue until its goals were achieved.
B the movement supported President Kennedy’s policies without reservation.
C racial conciliation in the United States was not only possible; it was inevitable.
D unless its demands were met soon, the movement would turn to violence.
