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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. In what year did the Supreme Court ban segregated buses?

a. 1955
b. 1963
c. 1956
d. 1972

2. Which civil rights act or bill came last?
a. the Civil Rights Bill
b. the Open Housing Act

c. the Civil Rights Act
d. the Voting Rights Act

3. What did Rosa Parks’ arrest cause?

a. a boycott of the buses in Montgomery, Alabama
b. an end to racism in America
c. Martin Luther King Junior’s decision to become a pastor

d. the Equal Employment Opportunity Act

4. What did pre-Civil War America and America 100 years after the Civil War
have in common?

a. Technology was basically the same.
b. nothing
c. Blacks were discriminated against.
d. The same music was popular.

5. Predict what would happen if a black person used a restroom designated
for white people in the 1950s in America.
a. They would be arrested.
b. They would be politely asked to leave.

c. They would be executed.
d. Nothing would happen.

6. In the context of this passage the word virtually means

a. not real
b. almost
c. far from

d. in theory

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