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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 was one of the demands that MIA made of the city?
(a) Buses should be reserved for blacks only.
(b) White passengers should have to stand when blacks were present.
(c) The bus company should hire black drivers too.
(d) The buses should be filled front to back for blacks.

2. Sherrod and Reagon moved their base of operations to which city?
(a) Selma.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Albany.
(d) Montgomery.

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

4. In what state was the governor fighting integration of a high school?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Vermont.

5. King planned a march to which city?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the meeting with Kennedy, the President told King to distance himself from whom?

2. In what newspaper was an ad taken out to defend MLK, Jr.?

3. King's sentence was suspended on what condition?

4. Several of the Albany leaders were charged with what?

5. What happened on January 30, 1956?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kennedy refuse to meet with King? How did the Kennedy Administration feel about the planned march in Washington?

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

3. In August, King was arrested. Why was he arrested? What effects did the arrest have?

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

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

6. What happened during King's trial? How did King feel about this?

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

8. Why did activists see Albany as a good place to fight racial inequality?

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

10. What was the first meeting like about the bus boycott? Why was it like this?

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