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Question #1
The first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate was __________.
A.   Carol Moseley Braun
B.   Anita Hill
C.   Oprah Winfrey
D.   Eleanor Holmes Norton
Question #2
Bill Clinton’s political strategy involved __________.
A.   rejecting African American support in favor of populist appeals to working-class whites
B.   reassembling the liberal coalition of the 1960s
C.   balancing the liberal views of his youth with the centrist vision of the Democratic Party in the 1990s
D.   embracing the conservatism of Ronald Reagan
Question #3
Bill Clinton’s failure to defend his nominee to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division revealed __________.
A.   a disturbing lack of interest in civil rights issues
B.   the flaws in legislative strategy
C.   racist tendencies in the new administration
D.   that he, like previous Democratic presidents, was reluctant to take political risks to reward black voters’ support
Question #4
By the year 2000, the poverty rate for African Americans had __________.
A.   fallen to an all-time low of 22 percent
B.   stayed the same as 1993 levels demonstrating the negative impact of President Clinton’s social policies
C.   declined to the lowest level since the Reagan administration
D.   risen to nearly 40 percent
Question #5
The former Black Panther released from prison when Johnny Cochran revealed that the key prosecution witness was a paid police informant was __________.
A.   Eldridge Cleaver
B.   Bobby Seale
C.   Huey Newton
D.   Geronimo Pratt
Question #6
Prison reformer Angela Davis argued that mass imprisonment __________.
A.   is being used as a substitute for dealing with social injustices
B.   is the best way to deal with pressing social problems
C.   is the logical result of the deindustrialization of American society
D.   has resulted in the destruction of a rising black leadership class
Question #7
Causes of the rapid increase in the numbers of African Americans in prison include __________.
A.   rising violent crime rates over the course of the 1990s
B.   both persistent poverty and targeted police surveillance of black communities
C.   holdover legislation from the Jim Crow era that mandated racial bias in sentencing
D.   a decline in drug use among white Americans
Question #8
The Million Man March was organized to __________.
A.   allow African American men to atone for past misdeeds and accept responsibility for their families and communities
B.   demand new civil rights legislation
C.   send a message to so-called mainstream civil rights organizations that black Americans were growing impatient with their lack of success
D.   protest continued racial discrimination
Question #9
In his book, The Content of Our Character, Shelby Steele questioned the __________.
A.   commitment of liberal Democrats to civil rights in the United States
B.   need for African Americans to unite around racial identity
C.   commitment of right-wing conservatives to civil rights in the United States
D.   success of civil rights reforms
Question #10
In the last decades of the century, Representative __________ submitted legislation that would establish a commission to examine the concept of reparations for the impact of slavery and subsequent racial injustice.
A.   John Lewis
B.   Harold Ford, Jr.
C.   James Bevel
D.   John Conyers
Question #11
An April 2003 Gallup Poll revealed that only __________ of black respondents supported the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq.
A.   29 percent
B.   13 percent
C.   5 percent
D.   35 percent

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