RACC 2012 Pre-Test

RACC 2012 Pre-Test

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance --- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire



1. The case which ruled that laws against inter-racial marriages were unconstitutional was
A. Loving vs. Virginia
B. Brown vs. Georgia
C. Farmer vs. Alabama
D. none of the above

2. At the time of her arrest in Montgomery, Rosa Parks
A. had lived a quiet, non-political life
B. already had a long criminal record
C. was a veteran civil rights activist
D. had just moved to Montgomery and had little experience with segregation

3. The term miscegenation refers to
A. the requirement that blacks and whites to use different bathing and medical facilities
B. the mingling of blood lines through interracial sex
C. the forcible sterilization of those convicted of rape
D. the use of underage minors for prostitution

4. The term incubus refers to
A. a process to sterilize males
B. a make demon believed to have sex with a sleeping woman
C. a form of rape that does not involve intercourse
D. none of the above

5. The phrase used by some of Joan Little’s more radical supporters to justify her killing the man who raped her was
A. “power to the ice pick”
B. “our bodies ourselves”
C. “never again”
D. “by any means necessary”

5. One of the main reasons Rosa Parks was selected as the symbol for the Montgomery bus boycott was because she
A. was new to Montgomery and did not have links to existing institutions
B. was a long-time member of Martin Luther King’s church
C. was a childless widow who didn’t have to worry about reprisals against her family
D. she exemplified middle-class “respectability”




6. Norman Cannon was
A. a civil rights lawyer from Atlanta who prosecuted many rape cases
B. the Alabama judge and segregationist who said black women liked violent sex
C. a black man in Florida who was castrated for having sex with a white woman
D. the first white man to get a life sentence in Mississippi for raping a black woman

7. . Albert Turner, Sr.
A. played a key role in the March on Washington.
B. helped organized the Selma to Montgomery march and was graduate of Alabama A&M.
C. was a key organized for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
D. organized the Freedom Rides as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.


8. Segregations tried to discredit civil rights activists by portraying them as
A. sexually promiscuous
B. Communists
C. anti-Christian
D. all of the above

9. Rosa Lee Ingram and Fannie Lou Hamer were different from Rosa Parks because they
A. were middle-class professional women
B. were poor share-croppers
C. lived in the North
D. none of the above

10. According to Mcguire, black women who were the victims of sexual violence
A. usually kept quiet out of shame
B. only told a few friends out of fear of reprisal
C. often used public testimony as a form of resistance
D. frequently took justice in their own hands by killing their attackers