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