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Question #1
The former executive director of SCLC who became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was __________.
A.   Barbara Jordan
B.   Andrew Young
C.   Thomas Sowell
D.   John Lewis
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.   Thomas Sowell
B.   Mary Frances Berry
C.   Clarence Thomas
D.   William Julius Wilson
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.   49 percent
B.   36 percent
C.   12 percent
D.   64 percent
Question #4
When Ronald Reagan vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, __________.
A.   the anti-apartheid movement collapsed amid recrimination
B.   Congress successfully overrode the veto
C.   there were national protests
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.   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B.   Song of Solomon
C.   Meridian
D.   The Women of Brewster Place
Question #6
Spike Lee’s success was notable not only because he was a black artist but because he worked __________.
A.   with white actors
B.   outside the studio system
C.   on films shot in Africa and the Caribbean
D.   exclusively with black actors
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.   gangsta rappers as a crucial Dukakis constituency
B.   Willie Horton, a black convicted murderer from Massachusetts
C.   Alice Walker and other black feminists as allies of the Dukakis campaign
D.   Jesse Jackson as Dukakis’s foreign policy advisor
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.   stop listening to black constituents
B.   be white, conservative and southern
C.   veer away from the Lyndon Johnson tradition of civil rights reform
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.   not working as envisioned and should be replaced by new programs
C.   politically divisive and a threat to Republican candidates
D.   no longer necessary and should be abolished
Question #11
The Oral Roberts University law professor who accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment was __________.
A.   Michele Wallace
B.   Alice Walker
C.   Shirley Chisholm
D.   Anita Hill

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