Civil Rights quiz

What invention is referred to as the greatest in human history according to the text?

• The Internet

• The Automobile

• The Computer

• Television

Who were two heroic figures mentioned in the Civil Rights Movement?

• Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

• Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass

What was a key goal of the Civil Rights movement mentioned in the text?

• Housing rights

• Desegregating schools

• Voting rights

• Economic equality

Which state's governor used the National Guard to prevent integration of a high school?

• Georgia

• Arkansas

• Alabama

• Mississippi

What was the percentage of Americans who enjoyed a middle-class standard of living by 1960?

• 40 percent

• 50 percent

• 60 percent

• 70 percent

What was the name of the suburb in New York that became home to 40,000 people almost overnight?

• Rivertown

• Elmtown

• Springfield

• Levittown

Who was the Chief Justice when Brown v. Board of Education came before the Supreme Court?

• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

• John Marshall

• Thurgood Marshall

• Earl Warren

What percentage of suburban whites lived in communities with non-white populations less than 1 percent as late as the 1990s?

• Nearly 100 percent

• Nearly 90 percent

• Nearly 80 percent

• Nearly 70 percent

Who helped to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott from his Baptist church?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• A. Philip Randolph

What did the sociologist David Riesman criticize Americans for in the 1950s?

• Ignoring the civil rights movement

• Overemphasis on technology

• Lacking the rich inner life necessary to be truly independent

• Being too politically active