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B outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.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