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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization was formed in Albany to fight racism?
(a) The Albany Movement.
(b) NAACP.
(c) Students for Change.
(d) The Southern Christian Coordinating Committee.

2. Where did King hold a prayer-in?
(a) The courthouse.
(b) The library.
(c) Police headquarters.
(d) A motel restaurant.

3. Who did King marry?
(a) Denise.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Coretta.
(d) Yolanda.

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

5. King announced that the Crusade for Citizenship would hold how many rallies simultaneously?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

6. Who came to the attention of the FBI at the Youth March for Integrated Schools?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Ruskin.
(c) Levison.
(d) Dexter.

7. 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 refused to go along with them, citing his probation problems.
(d) He failed to mention them in a speech in Washington DC.

8. At the meeting with Kennedy, the President told King to distance himself from whom?
(a) Abernathy.
(b) Levison.
(c) Wilkins.
(d) Parks.

9. When King was pulled over while driving, what did he not have?
(a) A Georgia driver's license.
(b) A voter's registration card.
(c) Car insurance.
(d) Proof of Insurance.

10. Who was hired to oversee the Crusade for Citizenship rallies, but then let go because of rumors of his homosexuality and communist connections?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Rocco Siciliano.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Bayard Rustin.

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

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

13. In February 1959, King and his wife traveled to see sites made famous by whom?
(a) Ghandi.
(b) Genghis Khan.
(c) Churchill.
(d) King Tut.

14. What fine did King receive in the state boycott trial?
(a) $100.
(b) $50.
(c) $1000.
(d) $500.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did King and his family move to?

3. King was invited to be a guest on which program?

4. Why were SNCC members upset with King?

5. What was King's tour called?

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