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Civil Rights #3
1) Blacks are an example of a group that we would expect to benefit from
a) Majoritarian politics.
b) Client politics.
c) Entrepreneurial politics.
d) Interest group politics.
2) Which of the following was not one of the reasons that blacks for many years failed to gain
redress of their grievances?
a) They were excluded from normal political activity such as voting.
b) Public opinion opposed black equality.
c) Blacks could not agree among themselves on the proper policies to combat discrimination.
d) White allies were few.
3) The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was all of the following except
a) Logically consistent.
b) Of long-lasting significance.
c) Consistent with the intentions of the Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment.
d) Supportive of “Jim Crow.”
4) “Jim Crow” is a slang expression referring to
a) Laws and policies that segregated blacks.
b) Discrimination against blacks in the military.
c) The early civil rights movement.
d) The difficulty that blacks had in getting a fair trial.
5) The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (whatever its wider implications) directly
concerned
a) Segregation on railroad cars.
b) Voting rights for blacks.
c) Lynching.
d) The ability of Congress to regulate race relations in the states.
6) The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade had as its constitutional basis the
a) Due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, implying a right to privacy.
b) First Amendment, implying that abortion is covered under the free exercise of speech.
c) Equal Rights Amendment, passed in 1982, granting women the right to control their own
bodies.
d) Eighth Amendment, implying that denying women the right to abortion constitutes cruel
and unusual punishment.
7) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded
a) Immediately after the Civil War.
b) In 1909, in the aftermath of an anti-black riot.
c) During the Great Depression.
d) In 1955, following the Montgomery bus boycott.
8) Which of the following statements about Brown v. Board of Education is true?
a) It was handed down by a divided Court.
b) It was ultimately rather narrow in its implications.
c) It was almost unnoticed when it was decided.
d) It was the logical extension of a line of related cases.
9) In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation is “inherently unequal” on the basis of
a) The fact that black children were not achieving success academically.
b) Apparent psychological harm done to black children in separate schools.
c) Inadequate expenditures on black education.
d) A philosophical understanding of the essentials of equality.
10) Segregation maintained by law is labeled
a) Prima facie.
b) Statist.
c) De jure.
d) Post facto suspect.
11) Which of the following was not among the key factors that put civil rights on the national
agenda in the early 1960s?
a) Lynchings of blacks in the South
b) Demonstrations in southern cities
c) Long, hot summers of rioting in the North
d) Sit-ins and freedom rides
12) Three young civil rights workers were killed in June 1964 in
a) Montgomery, Alabama.
b) Selma, Alabama.
c) Memphis, Tennessee.
d) Neshoba County, Mississippi.
13) Which of the following statements about civil rights legislation between 1933 and 1968 is true?
a) Congress usually favored strong civil rights legislation; the president opposed it.
b) The president usually favored strong civil rights legislation; Congress opposed it.
c) Both the president and Congress consistently favored civil rights legislation.
d) Both the president and Congress approved the first civil rights bill in 1957.
14) Among the standards that appear to be emerging in the Supreme Court’s rulings on quota
systems and preference systems are all of the following except
a) Such systems must correct a present or past pattern of discrimination.
b) Those systems created by state law will be given deference to those created by federal law.
c) There must be compelling justification for such systems.
d) Those systems involving hiring practices are more defensible than those involving layoffs.
15) Which of the following has been permitted by the Supreme Court?
a) A property tax exemption for widows that is not given to widowers
b) Preference given to men in the appointment of administrators of estates
c) Different legal drinking ages for males and females
d) Mandatory pregnancy leaves
16) Under the “quid pro quo” rule pertaining to sexual harassment
a) The employer is “strictly liable” even if he/she did not know that sexual harassment was
occurring.
b) The employer cannot be held liable if he/she did not know that sexual harassment was
occurring.
c) A pattern of sexual harassment must be proven before the employer is liable.
d) The employer is liable but not the employee in sexual harassment cases.
17) According to the Supreme Court, differences based on sex are permitted for
a) The ages at which men and women are allowed to buy beer.
b) The age at which men and women legally become adults.
c) Allowing women to remain officers longer than men without being promoted in the Navy.
d) Excluding girls from playing on Little League baseball teams.
18) The position that the Constitution neither is nor should be color-blind is taken by those who
advocate
a) Equality of results.
b) The incorporation of the Bill of Rights.
c) Freedom-of-education plans.
d) Equal opportunity.
19) In the Bakke case the Supreme Court held that a university medical school, in admitting
students, may
a) Use quotas for blacks and whites.
b) Use quotas for men and women.
c) Take gender into account.
d) Take race into account.
20) A 1992 Supreme Court decision made it easier for a school in a suburb of Atlanta to resist full
integration. The Court’s reasoning was that
a) Busing was no longer a viable option in communities that were either all white or all black.
b) The Equal Rights Amendment, passed in 1982, granted women the right to control their own
bodies.
c) Court-ordered desegregation was found to have deleterious effects on the children
involved.
d) The school had demonstrated good faith in trying to achieve at least partial integration.
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