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Question 1

Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter all day on February 1, 1960 but were never served because the
 
  A) store had closed out of fear of a race riot.
  B) lunch counter served white customers only and the students were black.
  C) lunch counter served black customers only and the students were white.
  D) store owners were protesting the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Question 2

The goal of the Montgomery bus boycott's planners was
 
  A) the end of all Jim Crow segregation throughout the South.
  B) courteous treatment by the bus operators and the seating of passengers on a first-come, first-served basis.
  C) bankrupting the bus company.
  D) violent confrontations with bus operators.

Question 3

In response to Rosa Park's arrest and trial for violating the color line on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama,
 
  A) local African-American leaders called for a boycott of the city's buses.
  B) she and her attorneys sued the bus company.
  C) President Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.
  D) African-Americans rioted and looted white neighborhoods.

Question 4

All of the following are TRUE about Rosa Parks EXCEPT
 
  A) she had been a civil rights activist for a long time.
  B) she had supported segregation laws until she was arrested for violating the color line on a segregated bus.
  C) elections officials had tried to deny her the right to vote on numerous occasions.
  D) she had attended desegregation workshops.

Question 5

Who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 for refusing to give up a seat on a bus to a white rider?
 
  A) E.D. Nixon
  B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
  C) J.P. Blake
  D) Rosa Parks

Question 6

In 1954, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to Little Rock, Arkansas, to
 
  A) ensure Republican victories in the congressional elections.
  B) arrest African-American rioters who protested the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
  C) help Governor Orval Faubus keep Central High School segregated.
  D) enforce the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision.



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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: B

Answer 3

Answer: A

Answer 4

Answer: B

Answer 5

Answer: D

Answer 6

Answer: D





 

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