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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the bus boycott not end when the bus company was losing so much money?
(a) A judge ordered the continuation of the boycott.
(b) The city refused to compromise.
(c) The bus company prefered to go out of business.
(d) The Albany Movement wanted to crush the bus company.

2. King was stabbed while in which city?
(a) Selma.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New York.

3. Why did negotiations fail with the city officials?
(a) They refused to drop the charges against the protesters.
(b) They refused to stop using fire hoses on protesters.
(c) They refused to desegregate the city government.
(d) They refused to set up a biracial committee.

4. The first federal Civil Rights Act did what?
(a) Ended bus segregation only.
(b) Dismissed all protest charges.
(c) Established a Civil Rights commission.
(d) Ended all segregation.

5. What was not included in the boycotts in Albany?
(a) Retail stores.
(b) The library.
(c) Public transportation.
(d) Schools.

6. The white merchants resisted what aim?
(a) Having fair hiring practices in the retail stores.
(b) The formation of a biracial committee.
(c) Desegregating the city government.
(d) Desegregating the retail stores.

7. Which university had the front doors blocked to keep several black students from registering?
(a) Emory University.
(b) University of Alabama.
(c) University of California.
(d) Marquette University.

8. Who did King visit with in New York about the Washington Pilgrimage?
(a) Andrew Joyce.
(b) Wayne Brown.
(c) Michael du Bois.
(d) Roy Wilkins.

9. Who rebuked King's attempt to organize a day of mourning?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) Julian Bond.

10. King announced planned protests outside of what political event(s)?
(a) Presidential elections.
(b) State dinner.
(c) Presidential Inauguration.
(d) Republican and Democratic Conventions.

11. Who made a speech on the day before the march that upset the White House?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(c) John Lewis.
(d) Robert Williams.

12. Who took King's place as the president of MIA?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Abernathy.
(c) Baker.
(d) Levison.

13. Who was discovered to have been sent to Montgomery by a New York organization?
(a) King.
(b) Parks.
(c) Gray.
(d) Rustin.

14. Why was their a rivalry between SNCC and the NAACP?
(a) They both staged a sit-in at the same time in different locations, making people choose between the two.
(b) The NAACP wanted to control the actions in Albany.
(c) Both groups wanted King to commit to their actions.
(d) SNCC wanted to control the actions in Albany.

15. Why was the first meeting about the bus boycott somewhat disastrous?
(a) The small number of people who attended.
(b) The bomb that was found.
(c) The police who showed up to arrest King.
(d) The ego of the leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to the attention of the FBI at the Youth March for Integrated Schools?

2. How many protesters were arrested during the first day of the Birmingham protests?

3. Who was hired to oversee the Crusade for Citizenship rallies, but then let go because of rumors of his homosexuality and communist connections?

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of what church?

5. In what state was the governor fighting integration of a high school?

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