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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Cuban missile crisis.
B construction of the Berlin Wall.
C American University speech.
D escalation of the Vietnam War.
Question #2
A guarantee that the majority of immigrants came from Europe.
B decrease the overall number of new immigrants.
C increase regional diversity among new immigrants.
D increase the size of the black population in the United States.
Question #3
A Young Lords Party
B Third World Liberation Front
C Young Americans for Freedom
D La Raza
Question #4
A sexual freedom.
B equal employment.
C beauty standards.
D consciousness-raising.
Question #5
A supporting federal authority.
B enhancing police powers.
C protecting individual freedoms.
D strengthening states’ rights.
Question #6
A Governor Wallace’s support for voting rights.
B passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
C the banning of protest marches in Alabama.
D disillusionment with nonviolent protest actions.
Question #7
A white college students.
B rural black youngsters.
C black college students.
D federal officials.
Question #8
A their desire for small government.
B a backlash against civil rights gains.
C opposition to the progressive income tax.
D their commitment to states’ rights.
Question #9
A Kennedy’s decision to deploy additional American troops in Europe
B Nikita Khrushchev’s determination to undermine President Kennedy’s confidence
C A desire to retaliate for the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba
D The desire to distract American attention from Cuba
Question #10
A sexual liberation of young American women.
B popularity of the Rolling Stones’ raunchy songs.
C success of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
D 1966 Supreme Court decision on pornography.
Question #11
A was distracted by the conflict in Vietnam.
B made foreign affairs his top priority.
C wasn’t pressured by black activists.
D feared alienating southern Democrats.
Question #12
A lawyers had to be provided for poor defendants.
B the police had to inform suspects of their rights.
C states could not ban the sale of contraceptives.
D states could not prohibit interracial marriage.
Question #13
A ending discrimination against women and minorities.
B enhancing the rights of criminal defendants.
C easing restrictions on the distribution of pornography.
D protecting individual rights and freedoms.
Question #14
A President John F. Kennedy’s ambivalence about intervening in Cuban politics.
B outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.
C a lack of Cuban support for overthrowing Fidel’s Castro regime.
D the involvement of Soviet troops in turning back the invasion.
Question #15
A Bayard Rustin.
B Martin Luther King Jr.
C A. Philip Randolph.
D John Lewis.
Question #16
A two million to 5 million.
B 500,000 to five million.
C 8 million to 12 million.
D three million to nine million.
Question #17
A As another demonstration of male dominance over women
B As a central feminist strategy
C As essential for transforming personal and social behavior
D As a path toward racial equality
Question #18
A nationalist pride.
B bilingual education.
C employment.
D voting rights.
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.
