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Quiz #8
The Civil Rights Movement
1. The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown vs. Board
Topeka case determined that
A. all registered voters have a right to vote
B. hiring in school's must guarantee that no teacher willbe
of Education of
discriminated against by
race
C. separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and, therefore,
unlawful
D. all residents have a right to a college
education
2. Rodger Streitmatter, as do many historians, cites the Civil Rights Movement as
A. the first great television news story
B. ill-timed, and would have been less violent if activists had waited a few years
C. a political movement that was spured by extensive newspaper coverage
D. a political movement that was spuned by effective public relations techniques
3. NBC correspondent John Chancellor said that with respect to the Civil Rights
Movement, journalism does not initiate social change, but journalism
A. can destroy movements by overexposure
B.
C.
D.
can amplify social change
can exaggerate the impact of social activists
can set the record straight on who did what to whom
4. In the summer of 1957, African-American leaders targeted Central High School for
desegregation with the enrollment of nine Black students. This took place in
A. Little Rock, Ark
B. Birmingham, Ala.
C. Tupelo, Miss.
D. New Orleans, La.
5. The above action is regarded as the first chapter of television's epic coverage of the
movement because
A. it turned what otherwise would have been a local story into a national news
B.
C.
D.
story
it gave Martin Luther King a forum for his beliefs
it lead to a rapid change in school district policy on segregation
it was the first news story presented in fullcolor, not just black and white
6. The most dramatic image that emerged from the Central High School desegregation
effort was
A. the brutal treatment of a petite, l5-year-old Black girl by redneck
segregationists
B. the lynching by a mob of two of the nine students
C. the relative calm that greeted
D.
a young
Black male student as he approached local
police at the school
the fire bomb that exploded on the school bus as the students entered the school
. The first time that Charlayne Hunter-Gault, later of the New York Times and a Public
Broadcasting Service correspondent, made the news was when
A. she defied a court order to leave a lunch counter in a segregated caf6
B. she refused to ride in the back of a bus in Selma, Ala.
C. she was one of two African Americans first admitted to the Univ. of Georgia
D. she shot a White Southemer who tried to assault her
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8. The racially mixed group of college students and civil rights activists who rode buses
from the North into segregated Southern communities was known as
A.
B.
freedom riders
carpet baggers
C. justice journeyers
D. abolitionists
9. Police Commissioner "Bull" Connor held great influence over the town considered the
most segregated city in America in the early 1960s. That city was
A. Little Rock, Ark.
B. Birmingham, Ala.
C. Tupelo, Miss.
D. New Orleans, La.
city became the target in 1963 for what one activist hoped would be
series of supposed nonviolent protests. The person was
A. Thurgood Marshall
B. Martin Luther King
C. Andrew Young
10. That same
D.
a
Jesse Jackson
11. Media images of Bull Connor's use of police dogs and high-pressure fire hoses to
subdue protestors, many of them children, led to a reaction from the public elsewhere.
They reacted by
A.
B.
organizing public marches of support in 40 cities around the country
flooding the White House with phone calls for action
C. calling their Congressional representatives, asking for federal intervention
D. expressing embarrassment, but doing little else
12. A massive demonstration and march took place in August 1963 with some 200,000
protestors whose actions were televised by all three networks. That event took place
A. near Camp David where the President was staying
B. in New York City, the media capital of the country
C. in Selma, Ala., in the heart of Dixie
D. in the nation's capital
13. It was during this same masslve march that the Rev. Martin Luther King delivered his
A. "I've been to the mountaintop" speech
B. *I have a dreamt'speech
C. last speech
D. first televised speech
14. In the DVD we viewed, the Edmund Pettis Bridge that Martin Luther King and his
demonstrators crossed was in
A. Selma, Ala.
B. Knoxville, Tenn.
C. Athens, Ga.
D. Jacksonville, Miss.
15. In that same DVD, we saw the President sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
That President was
A. John F. Kennedy
B. Richard Nixon
C. Lyndon B. Johnson
D. Jimmy Carter
16. The other key piece of legislation that followed the
A. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act was the
B. Equal Protection Act of 1965
C. Affirmative Action Act of 1966
D. Faith, Family & Freedom Act of 1966
Vietnam War
17. The United States' initial involvement in Vietnam began
A. in the early 1950s with Pres. Truman
B. in the late 1950s with Pres. Eisenhower
C. in the early 1960s with Pres. Kennedy
D. in the late 1960s with Pres. Johnson
18.
In 1954, Vietnam was divided in half. The north was
A.
B.
C.
D.
19.
democratically controlled and based in Hanoi
communist controlled and based in Hanoi
democratically controlled and based in Saigon
communist controlled and based in Saigon
In 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. destroyers in a Vietnamese gulf
location. This attack led to a Congressional action known as
A. the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
B. the Viet Cong Retaliation Resolution
C. the Port of Hanoi Resolution
D.
the Resolution of Vietnamese Sovereignty
20.8y war's end after more than
10 years, how many
men and women died in the
war?
A.
B.
c.
5,000
8,000
58,000
D. lto3million
2l.By war's end after more than 10 years, how many
estimated Southeast Asians died in
the war?
A.
B.
c.
5,000
8,000
58,000
D. lto3million
22.8y
1972, two out of three U.S. citizens named which medium as their main source
of
news
A. newspapers
B. magazines
C. television
D. radio
23. Through 1967, most news coverage of the war was favorable. However, what event in
1968 turned the coverage into one that was more critical?
A. the Tet Offensive
B. the Tonkin Offensive
C. the Cu Chi firefight
D. the Hanoi bombing
24.The most controversial story of the early years of the war was by Morley Safer of
CBS who covered events in the village of Cam Ne. That story showed
A. American soldiers in full retreat after an ambush
B. American soldiers burning down 150 houses by using tbeir "Zippo" lighters
C. Bombers strafing rice paddies in the Mekong Delta
D. American soldiers being shot at by Vietnamese children
25.The Viet Cong offensive during their Lunar New Year holiday in 1968 was
A. a military failure by North Vietnam
B. a military failure by U.S. troops
C. a military failure by South Vietnamese troops
D. a military success for the Viet Cong
26.In effect, what the televised news about the above offensive did to U.S. policy was
A. to cause severe damage to the credibility of the Lyndon B. Johnson
administration
B. to bolster the resolve of the American public to win the war
C. to damage peace negotiations between North and South Vietnamese
o'stay
the course'
D. to give comfort to U.S. troops and their commanders to
27. One of the most shocking and enduring images of the brutality and senselessness of
the war occurred on the streets of Saigon when a North Vietnamese prisoner was
arrested. Recorded for television during the arrest was
A. the escape of the prisoner without any resistance from his captors
B. the suicide bombing by the prisoner as he was taken before authorities
C. the execution of the prisoner by a point-blank shot to his head
D. the attack by citizens on the prisoner
28. The man who set the tone for television coverage after the cataclysmic New Year's
offensive by the North Vietnamese was "the most trusted man in America." He was
A. David Brinkley
B. Walter Cronkite
C. Chet Huntley
D. David Halberstam
29.That same broadcaster's negative assessment of the war at that point led Pres.
Johnson to reassess his position. What did he decide to do?
A. not run for reelection
B. increase military funding for the war
C. seek the help of U.N. coalition forces
D. announce an impassioned plea for reelection in order to win the war
30. Contributing to the tone of news coverage was the report of an incident at the village
of My Lai. What did news reports say?
A. that U.S. soldiers had destroyed the village and killed hundreds of civilians
B. that U.S. soldiers had been given defective weapons and died defenseless in the village
C. that children of the village were offered for sale to U.S. troops
D. that U.S. soldiers had retreated, despite orders from company commanders to fight