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Are You a '60s Radical?

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Are You a 60s Radical game quiz
"How much do you know about the radical '60s?"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Tom Hayden was the leader of which of these radical student groups?
    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    Students for a Democratic Society
    Weather Underground
    Mothers Against Drunk Driving


2. Who is credited with introducing the term "Black Power" to 1960s political discourse?
    Stokely Carmichael
    Angela Davis
    Malcolm X
    Huey Newton


3. Which of the following was not a member of the "Chicago 7"?
    Tom Hayden
    Eldridge Cleaver
    Jerry Rubin
    Abbie Hoffman


4. The Black Panther Party was a Black nationalist organization that believed that African-Americans should not work with people of other races.
    True
    False


5. This organization advocated the destruction of property in the hope of fomenting revolution in the United States.
    The Daughters of the American Revolution
    The Black Panthers
    The Weathermen
    The Yippies


6. The Young Lords was a Puerto Rican revolutionary group modeled after the Black Panthers. Who served as their lawyer?
    Thurgood Marshall
    Henry Cisneros
    Geraldo Rivera
    William Kunstler


7. This professor was removed from a teaching job at UCLA on grounds of political beliefs.
    Staughton Lynd
    Edward Teller
    Timothy Leary
    Angela Davis


8. Which of the following college campuses was NOT known as a center of student unrest in the 1960s?
    University of California at Berkeley
    National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Columbia University
    Kent State


9. This radical leader called for a transition from a "thing oriented society" to a "people oriented society" and warned of the "giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism."
    Abbie Hoffman
    Mao Zedong
    Eldridge Cleaver
    Martin Luther King, Jr.


10. In 1965, Casey Hayden and Mary King made waves in the peace and civil rights movements by doing what?
    Accusing it of sexism
    Publishing a gossipy tell-all memoir
    Calling it disloyal to America
    Robbing a bank to raise money for the cause


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Compiled Jun 28 12