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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Civil disobedience
B Legislation
C Violence
D Court room challenges to discrimination
E Political lobbying
Question #2
A They were SCLC members who traveled to Washington DC to lobby for desegration of schools in response to the strong Southern resistance.
B They were members of the Ku Klux Klan who sought to intimidate southern black activists.
C They were members of SNCC who rode motorcycles throughout the South, promoting local activism.
D They were an integrated group of mostly CORE members who sought to desegrate interstate bus travel.
E They were Mississippi Freedom Summer activists who traveled together to register southern blacks to vote.
Question #3
A President Eisenhower intervened and sent troops to enforce desegregation.
B The governor ordered the National Guard to prevent the integration of the school.
C The integration of Central High was the beginning of the long struggle to desegregate educational facilities in the South.
D All of these statements are accurate.
E Nine African American youth enrolled at the all-white Central High, sparking protests.
Question #4
A Rosa Parks-took leadership in the bus boycott in Montgomery
B Ella Baker-convened meeting that resulted in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
C Thurgood Marshall-NAACP lawyer who collaborated with the lawyer on the Mendez case
D Paul Robeson-black entertainer who was blacklisted for his advocacy of civil rights protests
E Martin Luther King-served at the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Question #5
A The lack of free speech on college campuses.
B Sex discrimination in college admission policies
C The practice of granting tenure to college professors
D Race discrimination in college admission policies.
E College fraternities and sororities
Question #6
A National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples
B Congress of Racial Equality
C Urban League
D Southern Christian Leadership Conference
E Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Question #7
A the Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965.
B denial of the right to vote to northern African Americans.
C the deterioration of the social and economic conditions of many urban blacks in the Northern states
D communist infiltration of civil rights groups.
E a shift in the tactics of the SCLC from passive resistance to violent confrontation.
Question #8
A They wanted to protect the rights of the growing number of undocumented farm workers.
B All of these
C They wanted access to education for their children.
D They demanded better wages and safer working conditions.
E They wanted more funding to develop efficient technologies.
Question #9
A started by getting federal laws passed to further their causes.
B worked hard to improve conditions for California farmers.
C Turned to advocating violent confrontation after failing to achieve their goals.
D relied on nonviolent protests and boycotts to further their causes.
E Failed to gain support from the Kennedy administration.
Question #10
A Protected free speech on college campuses
B Guaranteed equal pay for equal work for women
C Eliminated gender discrimination in education
D Protected women’s access to abortion under the right to privacy
E Supported bilingual education in schools.
Question #11
A It brought to the surface racial tensions among the black and white volunteers.
B Its major goal was to register black voters in the deep South.
C All of these are accurate statements.
D It signaled the growing cracks within the civil rights movement over goals.
E It was characterized by violence against and intimidation of the volunteers.
Question #12
A It lacked strong leadership.
B It focused on media spectacle rather than work in the communities.
C Its focus was on separation rather than integration of the black community.
D It focused on violent resistance.
E It found little support among African Americans.
Question #13
A Expressed his frustration with the American involvement in Vietnam,thus lending support to the antiwar movement.
B started an uprising at the jail that eventually led to King and other protestors escaping.
C defended non-violent protests and sparked greater attention to the movement
D Convinced President Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act.
E caused a number of violent protests that resulted the death of many leaders of the movement.
Question #14
A The fact that homosexuality had to be closeted.
B A common medical condition among women that doctors had not yet identified.
C The lack of access to safe and legal abortions.
D Radical feminists.
E The shared feeling among women that they were unhappy with their middle-class lives but could not openly discuss this unhappiness.
Question #15
A Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations
B Protected black voting rights by sending federal registrars to southern districts
C All of these
D Eliminated poll taxes
E Provided for punishment of people who discriminated against racial groups