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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine did King's picture appear on in 1957?

2. Why did a riot break out?

3. What was left on King's front porch in January, 1957?

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of what church?

5. The white merchants resisted what aim?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the city officials in Albany respond to the protests and boycotts?

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

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

6. Who was Rosa Parks? What was her connection to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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

8. Who was Stanley Levison? Why was the Kennedy campaign growing more concerned about King?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did the boycott start? How did city officials react? Was the boycott successful?

Essay Topic 2

What was Bloody Sunday? What happened during this demonstration? How did King become involved in the situation? What did King and the others plan and how did this turn out?

Essay Topic 3

How did local cities and towns handle the demonstrations and boycotts by the Civil Rights Movement? What actions did they take? Do you think cities should have reacted the way that they did? Why or why not?

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