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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 American University speech.
D construction of the Berlin Wall.
Question #2
A increase regional diversity among new immigrants.
B guarantee that the majority of immigrants came from Europe.
C increase the size of the black population in the United States.
D decrease the overall number of new immigrants.
Question #3
A Third World Liberation Front
B Young Lords Party
C Young Americans for Freedom
D La Raza
Question #4
A sexual freedom.
B beauty standards.
C consciousness-raising.
D equal employment.
Question #5
A strengthening states’ rights.
B supporting federal authority.
C enhancing police powers.
D protecting individual freedoms.
Question #6
A Governor Wallace’s support for voting rights.
B passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
C disillusionment with nonviolent protest actions.
D the banning of protest marches in Alabama.
Question #7
A white college students.
B federal officials.
C black college students.
D rural black youngsters.
Question #8
A a backlash against civil rights gains.
B their commitment to states’ rights.
C opposition to the progressive income tax.
D their desire for small government.
Question #9
A Kennedy’s decision to deploy additional American troops in Europe
B The desire to distract American attention from Cuba
C A desire to retaliate for the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba
D Nikita Khrushchev’s determination to undermine President Kennedy’s confidence
Question #10
A 1966 Supreme Court decision on pornography.
B sexual liberation of young American women.
C popularity of the Rolling Stones’ raunchy songs.
D success of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
Question #11
A feared alienating southern Democrats.
B was distracted by the conflict in Vietnam.
C made foreign affairs his top priority.
D wasn’t pressured by black activists.
Question #12
A states could not prohibit interracial marriage.
B the police had to inform suspects of their rights.
C states could not ban the sale of contraceptives.
D lawyers had to be provided for poor defendants.
Question #13
A protecting individual rights and freedoms.
B easing restrictions on the distribution of pornography.
C enhancing the rights of criminal defendants.
D ending discrimination against women and minorities.
Question #14
A the involvement of Soviet troops in turning back the invasion.
B President John F. Kennedy’s ambivalence about intervening in Cuban politics.
C outdated intelligence going back to the Eisenhower administration.
D a lack of Cuban support for overthrowing Fidel’s Castro regime.
Question #15
A Martin Luther King Jr.
B John Lewis.
C A. Philip Randolph.
D Bayard Rustin.
Question #16
A three million to nine million.
B two million to 5 million.
C 8 million to 12 million.
D 500,000 to five million.
Question #17
A As a central feminist strategy
B As another demonstration of male dominance over women
C As essential for transforming personal and social behavior
D As a path toward racial equality
Question #18
A bilingual education.
B employment.
C voting rights.
D nationalist pride.
Question #19
A the civil rights movement would continue until its goals were achieved.
B the movement supported President Kennedy’s policies without reservation.
C unless its demands were met soon, the movement would turn to violence.
D racial conciliation in the United States was not only possible; it was inevitable.
