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Question #1
The former executive director of SCLC who became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was __________.
A.   John Lewis
B.   Barbara Jordan
C.   Thomas Sowell
D.   Andrew Young
Question #2
The black sociologist who argued in the book The Declining Significance of Race that the problems of the black poor had not been greatly affected by civil rights laws was __________.
A.   William Julius Wilson
B.   Thomas Sowell
C.   Clarence Thomas
D.   Mary Frances Berry
Question #3
At the end of Reagan’s first term in office, __________ of African American families had an annual income below the federal government’s stated poverty line.
A.   36 percent
B.   12 percent
C.   49 percent
D.   64 percent
Question #4
When Ronald Reagan vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, __________.
A.   there were national protests
B.   Congress successfully overrode the veto
C.   the anti-apartheid movement collapsed amid recrimination
D.   race riots erupted in Washington, DC.
Question #5
The novel that depicts the experiences of seven diverse black women living in decaying rental houses on a walled-off street of an urban neighborhood is titled __________.
A.   The Women of Brewster Place
B.   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
C.   Meridian
D.   Song of Solomon
Question #6
Spike Lee’s success was notable not only because he was a black artist but because he worked __________.
A.   exclusively with black actors
B.   with white actors
C.   on films shot in Africa and the Caribbean
D.   outside the studio system
Question #7
The groups Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions epitomized __________.
A.   the controversial style of rap known as “gangsta”
B.   a political style of rap
C.   a new movement in the jazz world
D.   a return to basic dance movements from the swing era
Question #8
A key element of George H. W. Bush’s victory in the 1988 presidential race was his television ad that depicted __________.
A.   Willie Horton, a black convicted murderer from Massachusetts
B.   Jesse Jackson as Dukakis’s foreign policy advisor
C.   gangsta rappers as a crucial Dukakis constituency
D.   Alice Walker and other black feminists as allies of the Dukakis campaign
Question #9
After the defeat of Michael Dukakis in 1988, many leaders of the Democratic Party concluded that the party was too liberal and that, in the future, Democratic candidates should __________.
A.   be white, conservative and southern
B.   veer away from the Lyndon Johnson tradition of civil rights reform
C.   stop listening to black constituents
D.   heed Jesse Jackson’s advice and reach out to the dispossessed
Question #10
Black neoconservatives of the 1980s argued that affirmative action and other racial preference programs were __________.
A.   finally starting to work and should be continued
B.   politically divisive and a threat to Republican candidates
C.   no longer necessary and should be abolished
D.   not working as envisioned and should be replaced by new programs
Question #11
The Oral Roberts University law professor who accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment was __________.
A.   Alice Walker
B.   Anita Hill
C.   Michele Wallace
D.   Shirley Chisholm

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