2H.2.1 Affluence and conformity, 1955–63 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 8

The 20 questions

1. Whose arrest in December 1955 directly sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?

   • Ella Baker
   • Claudette Colvin
   • Rosa Parks
   • Coretta Scott King

2. Which August 1963 civil rights demonstration attracted around 250,000 protesters to Washington DC?

   • Selma to Montgomery
   • March on Washington
   • Poor People's Campaign
   • Freedom Rides

3. How did President Eisenhower respond to the 1957 Little Rock Central High crisis?

   • Sent federal troops
   • Passed civil legislation
   • Closed the school
   • Arrested the governor

4. Which President established the Peace Corps in 1961 to send American volunteers abroad?

   • John F Kennedy
   • Dwight D Eisenhower
   • Richard Nixon
   • Lyndon B Johnson

5. What was the collective name for President John F Kennedy's domestic and foreign policy programme?

   • The Fair Deal
   • The New Deal
   • The New Frontier
   • The Great Society

6. Which economist coined the term 'The Affluent Society' in his 1958 book analysing post-war wealth?

   • John Kenneth Galbraith
   • Thomas Sowell
   • Milton Friedman
   • Paul Samuelson

7. What form of civil rights protest was initiated at Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960?

   • Marches
   • Boycotts
   • Freedom Rides
   • Lunch-counter sit-ins

8. Which countercultural literary movement of the late 1950s was led by writers like Jack Kerouac?

   • Hippie movement
   • Beat generation
   • Transcendentalists
   • Lost Generation

9. Which US government agency was created in 1958 as a direct response to Sputnik?

   • DARPA
   • NASA
   • CIA
   • NSA

10. Which white supremacist group used terror and violence to oppose civil rights desegregation in the 1950s?

    • John Birch Society
    • Black Panthers
    • Minutemen
    • Ku Klux Klan

11. Which 1964 US act banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment?

    • Fair Housing Act
    • Voting Rights Act
    • Civil Rights Act
    • Equal Pay Act

12. What did the US Equal Pay Act of 1963 require for equal work?

    • Equal pay
    • Equal maternity leave
    • Equal pensions
    • Equal working hours

13. Which body was established by the US Civil Rights Act of 1957?

    • Urban League Council
    • Equal Employment Commission
    • Voting Rights Board
    • Civil Rights Commission

14. In which US city was President John F. Kennedy assassinated in November 1963?

    • Houston
    • Dallas
    • Chicago
    • Washington D.C.

15. What did the 1961 Freedom Rides challenge across the American South?

    • Housing discrimination
    • Voting literacy tests
    • Interstate bus segregation
    • School segregation

16. What space goal did President Kennedy set for the US in 1961?

    • Mars space probe
    • Orbiting the Earth
    • Space station launch
    • Manned Moon landing

17. Who wrote the influential 1963 feminist book The Feminine Mystique?

    • Gloria Steinem
    • Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Betty Friedan
    • Phyllis Schlafly

18. What did the USSR agree to do to end the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?

    • Remove missiles
    • Invade Turkey
    • Join NATO
    • Build Berlin Wall

19. Which 1962 US Supreme Court ruling banned officially sponsored prayer in public schools?

    • Engel v. Vitale
    • Gideon v. Wainwright
    • Brown v. Board
    • Roe v. Wade

20. In which year did Martin Luther King deliver his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech?

    • 1963
    • 1960
    • 1955
    • 1968

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