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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the dates of the demonstration at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?
(a) July 9 and 16, 1961.
(b) August 5 and 9, 1961.
(c) June 5 and 7, 1961.
(d) December 5 and 7, 1961.

2. When associated with the Civil Rights Movement, what did demonstrators consider their arrests?
(a) Badges.
(b) Unnecessary retaliation.
(c) Marks of honor.
(d) Proof of commitment.

3. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?
(a) October 25, 1955.
(b) December 5, 1955.
(c) December 5, 1957.
(d) October 25, 1958.

4. What did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?
(a) U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
(b) Anti-Racial Commission.
(c) Self-Determination for Activists Commission.
(d) Equality for All Commission.

5. What president announced the use of federal troops to escort nine children to high school in Arkansas?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Wilson.

6. What movement involved civil rights activists who sought to challenge religious segregation?
(a) Pray-in.
(b) Sit-in.
(c) Choice-in.
(d) Free-ins.

7. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?
(a) August 17, 1955.
(b) September 17, 1956.
(c) May 17, 1957.
(d) October 17, 1959.

8. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?
(a) December 1, 1955.
(b) May 17, 1954.
(c) April 1, 1955.
(d) March 17, 1957.

9. What date did the Montgomery buses become integrated?
(a) December 21, 1957.
(b) October 21, 1956.
(c) December 21, 1956.
(d) October 21, 1957.

10. On what date did the head of the Nation of Islam call upon African Americans to form a state of their own?
(a) July 31, 1960.
(b) January 1, 1960.
(c) July 4, 1960.
(d) December 5, 1960.

11. At what "Anniversary Conference" of the NUL did Dr. King deliver a speech?
(a) Platinum.
(b) Silver.
(c) Golden.
(d) Diamond.

12. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?
(a) December.
(b) June.
(c) April.
(d) September.

13. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?
(a) The conference site for the MIA.
(b) Hattie Cotton Elementary School.
(c) Montgomery Bus Headquarters.
(d) Dr. King's home.

14. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?
(a) Centralia West High School.
(b) Wesclin High School.
(c) Central High School.
(d) Triad High School.

15. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Mobile, Alabama.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Newnan, Georgia.
(d) Knoxville, Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?

2. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?

3. What year was Mohandas Gandhi assassinated?

4. At some points, how did Dr. King help to keep the SCLC's cash flow problems from shutting down due to financial ruin?

5. What famous black child psychologist embraced the liberal idea that where there is no equal opportunity to succeed there can be no social equality?

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