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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Cuban missile crisis.
B escalation of the Vietnam War.
C American University speech.
D construction of the Berlin Wall.
Question #2
A increase the size of the black population in the United States.
B decrease the overall number of new immigrants.
C increase regional diversity among new immigrants.
D guarantee that the majority of immigrants came from Europe.
Question #3
A Third World Liberation Front
B La Raza
C Young Americans for Freedom
D Young Lords Party
Question #4
A sexual freedom.
B consciousness-raising.
C equal employment.
D beauty standards.
Question #5
A enhancing police powers.
B protecting individual freedoms.
C strengthening states’ rights.
D supporting federal authority.
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 commitment to states’ rights.
B opposition to the progressive income tax.
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 success of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
B sexual liberation of young American women.
C popularity of the Rolling Stones’ raunchy songs.
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 protecting individual rights and freedoms.
B enhancing the rights of criminal defendants.
C ending discrimination against women and minorities.
D easing restrictions on the distribution of pornography.
Question #14
A President John F. Kennedy’s ambivalence about intervening in Cuban politics.
B a lack of Cuban support for overthrowing Fidel’s Castro regime.
C the involvement of Soviet troops in turning back the invasion.
D outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.
Question #15
A Bayard Rustin.
B A. Philip Randolph.
C John Lewis.
D Martin Luther King Jr.
Question #16
A 500,000 to five million.
B two million to 5 million.
C three million to nine million.
D 8 million to 12 million.
Question #17
A As a path toward racial equality
B As essential for transforming personal and social behavior
C As a central feminist strategy
D As another demonstration of male dominance over women
Question #18
A bilingual education.
B nationalist pride.
C employment.
D voting rights.
Question #19
A the movement supported President Kennedy’s policies without reservation.
B the civil rights movement would continue until its goals were achieved.
C racial conciliation in the United States was not only possible; it was inevitable.
D unless its demands were met soon, the movement would turn to violence.
