1) Following the assassination of President Kennedy, what was President Lyndon B. Johnsonʹs
legislative priority?
A) civil rights reform
B) restoring Jim Crow laws
C) pacifying the demands of the South
D) equal rights for the disabled
E) equal rights for military veterans
2) The objective of Brown v. Board of Education was to create equal educational opportunity. In
which of the following ways are current educational opportunities unequal?
A) Fewer funds are allocated to substandard school districts.
B) White students are less likely to attend substandard schools than African-American
students.
C) A disproportionate number of white students take advanced placement classes.
D) School funding varies considerably from state to state.
E) All of the above.
3) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
A) prohibited discrimination in public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce.
B) guaranteed full voting rights to all legal U.S. residents.
C) provided federal funds to discriminatory state and local programs.
D) prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
E) All of the above.
4) One decade after Brown v. Board of Education, what percent of African American children in the
South attended integrated schools?
A) fewer than 1 percent B) about 25 percent
C) about 50 percent D) nearly 100 percent
5) Racial discrimination that results from practice rather than law is called ________
discrimination.
A) de jure
B) de facto
C) in vino veritas
D) direct
E) practical
6) Where is one most likely to find de facto discrimination?
A) in local ordinances
B) in state laws
C) in federal laws
D) in Supreme Court decisions
E) in residential neighborhoods
7) When was the Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution?
A) 1908
B) 1936
C) 1972
D) 1982
E) The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified by enough states and did not become part
of the Constitution.
8) What standard does the Supreme Court use to determine whether classification by sexual
orientation violates the equal protection clause?
A) strict scrutiny
B) heightened standard
C) intermediate standard
D) minimum rationality standard
E) fundamental freedom standard
9) What does Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibit?
A) discrimination on the basis of height
B) discrimination on the basis of weight
C) discrimination against noncitizens
D) discrimination against female students
E) discrimination against gay and lesbian students
10) The primary purpose of which of the following groups is to lobby and litigate on behalf of
Hispanic Americans?
A) NAACP
B) MALDEF
C) Korematsu
D) NOW
E) ACLU
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