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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights MCQ

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights MCQ

1. In drunken driving cases, the police must conduct _____ tests on suspects.

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Correct Answer: Fair and safe

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2. Civil rights activists targeted segregation in interstate transportation _____.

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Correct Answer: Because they knew that the states regulated interstate transportation

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3. Undocumented aliens are most common in _____ states.

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Correct Answer: The Southwest

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4. The _____ test measures whether an action of the government achieves a fair purpose.

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Correct Answer: Constitutionality

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5. Examples of civil rights are each of the following except ________.

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Correct Answer: Right to any speech

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6. Developed in 1965, affirmative action is a policy that attempts _____.

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Correct Answer: To make up for past discrimination policies.

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7. Public uttering of a _______ statement that harms someone's reputation is _______.

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Correct Answer: True; neither slander nor libel

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8. ________ is considered? the oldest institution known to the constitution.?

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Correct Answer: A grand jury

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9. The due process clause of the fifth amendment is best described as a ________.

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Correct Answer: Procedural civil liberty

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10. The _______ to see the world through the lens of white culture and power is called white privilege.

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Correct Answer: Learned tendency

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11. A classification, such as race, for which any discriminatory law must be justified by a compelling state interest is called _______

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Correct Answer: Suspect Classification

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12. A heightened standard of review used by the Supreme Court to assess the constitutionality of laws that limit some freedoms or that make a suspect Classification is called ______

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Correct Answer: Strict Scrutiny

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13. Stereotypes are the assumptions about other people based on their race, and_____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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14. The ownership, for forced labor, of one people by another is called _______

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Correct Answer: Slavery

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15. Spoken defamation of character is called _______

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Correct Answer: Slander

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16. The legal principle stemming from Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that segregation didn’t violate the Fourteenth Amendment unless the separate facilities provided were _______

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Correct Answer: Unequal

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17. Sedition is a speech that criticizes the government in order to promote ______.

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Correct Answer: Rebellion

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18. The judicial creation from Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) that certain rights in the Bill of Rights protected intimate decisions like family planning from state interference is called ______

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Correct Answer: Right to privacy

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19. Racism is Institutionalized power inequalities based on the perception of ______ .

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Correct Answer: Racial differences

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20. Censorship of or punishment for the expression of ideas before the ideas are printed or spoken is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Prior restraint

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21. The principle that Internet service providers cannot speed up or slow down access for customers or make decisions about the content they see or the apps they download is called ______

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Correct Answer: Net Neutrality

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22. The idea that one is born with a set of rights that no government can take away are called ______

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Correct Answer: Natural Rights

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23. The rights that a person has to resist questioning and not to incriminate oneself; the police must inform suspects that they possess these rights are called _________

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Correct Answer: Miranda Rights

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24. Miller Test is the rule used by the courts in which the definition of _____ must be based on local standards.

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Correct Answer: Obscenity

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25. The idea that marriage should not be reserved for heterosexual couples and that all marriages should be equal before the law is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Marriage equality

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26. Libel is the written defamation of character.

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Correct Answer: Character

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27. Lemon Test is the _____ rule used by the courts to determine whether the establishment clause is violated.

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Correct Answer: Three Pronged

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28. Jim Crow Laws are the laws passed after the______ Amendments granted African Americans citizen rights; intended to re-create the power relations of slavery.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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29. Breaking down barriers that keep races apart to allow the creation of a diverse community is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Integration

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30. Supreme Court action making the protections of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Incorporation

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31. The tendency for passing thoughts to confirm existing stereotypes in our minds, even if we quickly catch them is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Implicit Bias

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32. Imminent Lawless Action Test is the rule used by the courts that _____speech only if it is aimed at producing or is likely to produce imminent lawless action.

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Correct Answer: Restricts

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33. Habeas Corpus is the right to be brought before a judge and informed of the _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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34. The invisible but impenetrable barrier that most women face when trying to ascend the corporate or political ladder is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Glass ceiling

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35. Gender Bias means systemic ways of treating _____differently to their detriment.

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Correct Answer: Women

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36. The ability to express one’s views without government restraint is known as______

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Correct Answer: Freedom of Expression

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37. The right of the people to gather peacefully and to petition government is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Freedom of Assembly

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38. Free Exercise Clause is the first Amendment guarantee that citizens may freely engage in the _____activities of their choice.

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Correct Answer: Religious

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39. Speech intended to incite violence refers to_____

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Correct Answer: Fighting Words

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40. The rule created by the Supreme Court that evidence seized illegally may be used to obtain a conviction is known as Exclusionary Rule.

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Correct Answer: False

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41. Ex Post Facto Law is a law that makes something legal after you have already done it.

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Correct Answer: False

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42. Establishment Clause is the the First Amendment guarantee that the government will not_____

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Correct Answer: Both

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43. The guarantee that laws will be fair and reasonable and that citizens suspected of breaking the law will be treated _____ refers to Due Process Rights.

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Correct Answer: Fairly

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44. Differential treatment is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Discrmination

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45. De jure Discrimination means_____

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Correct Answer: Discrimination by law

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46. De Facto Discrimination is the discrimination on the basis of life circumstances, ______

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Correct Answer: All of these

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47. Compelling State Purpose is a fundamental state purpose, which must be shown before the law _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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48. The rule used by the courts that allows language to be regulated only if it presents an immediate and urgent danger is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Clear and Present Danger Test

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49. Civil Rights Movement is a group effort of African Americans to claim their civil rights through a variety of means—legal, _____ disobedience—

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Correct Answer: All of these

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50. The freedom of groups to participate fully in the public life of a nation; protected by the government primarily in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,_____, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments.

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Correct Answer: Nineteenth

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51. The individual freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution that limit government refers to_____

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Correct Answer: Civil Freedom

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52. Boycott is the refusal to buy certain goods or services as a way to _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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53. Black Codes is a series of laws in the post–Civil War South designed to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved people before the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; denied freed Blacks the _____ which re-created the conditions of slavery under another name.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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54. A law directed at an individual or group that accuses and convicts them of a crime is known as Bill of Attainder.

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Correct Answer: True

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