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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organizations did the students form out of the lunch counter sit-ins?
(a) Hands Across America.
(b) Crusade for Citizenship.
(c) Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) National Youths Against Racism.

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

3. Why did the Freedom Riders feel disappointed in King?
(a) He spent some of the money they had planned on using.
(b) He did not want to serve on their advisory panel.
(c) He failed to mention them in a speech in Washington DC.
(d) He refused to go along with them, citing his probation problems.

4. King was invited to be a guest on which program?
(a) Dateline.
(b) Newshour.
(c) 60 Minutes.
(d) Meet the Press.

5. What did the NAACP tell its members?
(a) It was turning to violent protests.
(b) It was disbanding in Albany.
(c) Not to participate in SNCC activities.
(d) King was trying to undermine the NAACP.

6. The bus trip from Washington to New Orleans by an integrated group of students was known as what?
(a) Freedom Ride.
(b) Protest Ride.
(c) Anti-Raciam Ride.
(d) Green Ride.

7. King wanted the Birmingham protests to start after what?
(a) The March on Washington.
(b) The new year.
(c) The elections.
(d) The opening of a new department store.

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

9. King's sentence was suspended on what condition?
(a) He meet with the Kennedy Adminstration.
(b) He remain out of trouble.
(c) He leave Birmingham.
(d) He stop all protests in the US.

10. Segregation on the city buses officially ended when?
(a) March 29.
(b) October 14.
(c) December 20.
(d) June 3.

11. What did King want the Kennedy Administration to issue?
(a) Reparations for slavery.
(b) An apology for Jim Crow.
(c) A segregation bill.
(d) A Second Emancipation Proclamation.

12. What happened on the night that the settlement with the city was reached?
(a) The White House told King to back off.
(b) An activist's home and a hotel were bombed.
(c) The KKK arrived to protest.
(d) Abernathy was killed.

13. Who called the judge on the trial and suggested that King had a right to bond while waiting his appeal?
(a) Coretta King.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

14. What did Connor use on the protesters?
(a) Stun guns.
(b) Police dogs.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Tear gas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the demands that MIA made of the city?

2. Who advised King to distance himself from Levison?

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. Who made a speech on the day before the march that upset the White House?

5. When King was pulled over while driving, what did he not have?

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