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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the university where the SNCC was began?
(a) Methodist University.
(b) Shaw University.
(c) Campbell University.
(d) Wake Forrest University.

2. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(d) Newnan, Georgia.

3. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 1,000.

4. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

5. Who was the first president of the Montgomery Improvement Association?
(a) Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.
(c) Melba Patillo Beals.
(d) Rosa Parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?

2. How many federal marshals were dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?

3. On what date was interstate traveling first challenged by an African American?

4. When did the President remove the National Guard troops from the high school in Arkansas?

5. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were some of the factors that led to a new sense of self-respect on the part of the African American?

2. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would have happened in the United States if the country were to gain three million "southern Negro" votes?

3. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would "this generation" not take?

4. What were the three reasons that blacks gave when asked why they did not expect the Montgomery Bus Boycott to succeed?

5. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the denial of the right to vote do to African Americans?

6. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did King describe as "the face of the future"?

7. In Chapter 4: "My Trip To the Land of Gandhi," Martin Luther King, Jr., described his fascination for India. Why did King hold a fascination for India?

8. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," there were eight descriptions of the "New Negro." What were three of the eight of the descriptions?

9. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why is racial injustice a national, and not a sectional, problem?

10. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the problems associated with the shift from rural to urban life for African Americans?

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