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C outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.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