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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. Where did King and his family move to?
(a) Selma.
(b) Albany.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Atlanta.

2. Who was asked to vacate her seat on a city bus for a white passenger?
(a) Betty Shabazz.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Fannie Lou Hamer.
(d) Abigail Jenson.

3. What was left on King's front porch in January, 1957?
(a) A dead rabbit.
(b) A lawsuit over the boycott.
(c) Dynamite.
(d) Hate mail.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Connor use on the protesters?

3. King wanted the Birmingham protests to start after what?

4. The bus trip from Washington to New Orleans by an integrated group of students was known as what?

5. What happened to King at a book signing in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the protests in Birmingham not get off to the start that King wanted?

2. What was the Crusade for Citizenship? Who was not happy about this?

3. What was Wilkins concerned about when King met with him?

4. What were the aims of the demonstrations in Birmingham?

5. What changes did King make in his life?

6. What was the Montgomery Improvement Association? What were its aims?

7. Why was King sentenced to four months in jail?

8. What did Connor do to shop the marchers in Birmingham? How did the marchers respond?

9. What was the Freedom Ride? What were the results?

10. What happened in King and Abernathy's trial in Albany? Why did they not serve the full sentence?

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