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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 a bomb explode in January?
(a) Bethel Baptist Church.
(b) Albany Sheraton Hotel.
(c) First Methodist Church.
(d) Birmingham Public Library.

2. The bus boycott took away what percentage of bus riders?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 50 percent..
(c) 70 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

3. Why did a riot break out?
(a) The city went back on its agreement.
(b) The bombs killed 35 people.
(c) The state troopers had moved from the site of the bombings.
(d) Whites attacked several blacks on the way to church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did King visit with in New York about the Washington Pilgrimage?

2. What organizations did the students form out of the lunch counter sit-ins?

3. Why did Rustin resign?

4. What did people blame King for?

5. Which university had the front doors blocked to keep several black students from registering?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John and Robert Kennedy do for King? How did this come about?

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

3. What was the March on Washington?

4. What occurred in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960? How did King become involved?

5. How many rallies did King announce for the voter registration? What was the outcome of these rallies?

6. What did the white merchants do in Birmingham after the protests began?

7. What happened at Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church? What did King do about this?

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

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

10. What was King accused of when he returned to Atlanta from North Carolina? How did he and his supporters react?

(see the answer keys)

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