1) The world’s greatest female athlete was:

a)  Minnie Fisher Cunningham
b)  Annie Webb Blanton
c)  Oveta Culp Hobby
d)  Mildred Didrikson Zaharias

Hint:  pages 373

2) _________, Texas’ best-known modern novelist, won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove.

a)  Ronnie Dugger
b)  Billy Brammer
c)  Tom Lea
d.) Larry McMurtry

Hint:  pages 380

3) . J. Frank Dobie is associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

a)  Coronado’s Children
b)  With a Pistol in His Hand
c)  Cow People
d)  Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver

Hint:  page 380

4) The Sweatt v. Painter (1950) decision

a)  ordered the desegregation of public facilities.
b)  ordered the integration of U.T.’s school of business.
c)  ordered the integration of Texas Southern University.
d)  ordered the integration of U.T.’s law school.

Hint: page 366

5) Hernandez  v. The State of Texas protected Mexican Americans from

a) segregated school rooms.
b) exclusion as jurors in their communities of residence if qualified.
c) social and economic discrimination.
d) virulent forms of racism.

Hint:  pages 365

6) During the war, ________ commanded the Women’s Army Corps. 

a) Doris Miller
b) Mildred Didrikson Zaharias
c) Oveta Culp Hobby
d) Audie Murphy.

Hint:  page 348

7) Dr. Hector P. Garcia was founder of

a)  the American G.I. Forum
b)  League of Latin American Citizens
c)  “Little School of the 400”
d)  the Houston Grand Opera Company

Hint:  pages 364

8) World War II, in particular, was a godsend to

a)  women and minorities in terms of equal pay.
b)  higher education.
c)  public school enrollment.
d)  labor unionization.

Hint:  pages 347-51, 357-58

9) Which denomination remained the largest single denomination in Texas in 1953?

a)  Southern Baptist
b)  African American Baptist
c)  Methodist
d)  Roman Catholic

Hint:  page 369

10) Which of the following did NOT impact the growth of suburbanization?

a)  improved transportation
b)  expansion of railroad passenger services
c)  “white flight”
d)  growth of commerce in suburban areas.

Hint:  pages 355-7