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D outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.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