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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the cause of Dr. King's injury on September 20, 1958?
(a) A black man.
(b) A black woman.
(c) A white man.
(d) A white woman.

2. Who were the primary people who led the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians?
(a) African American women.
(b) African American business-persons.
(c) African American college students.
(d) African American men.

3. What was the name of one of the first integrated group of interstate travelers that later served as Dr. King's chief strategists?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Bayard Rustin.
(c) Emmett Till.
(d) Reverend Oliver Brown.

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

5. On what date was interstate traveling first challenged by an African American?
(a) April 1910.
(b) April 1885.
(c) April 1920.
(d) April 1905.

6. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?
(a) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
(b) Mack Parker.
(c) Ernest Green.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

7. What is the name of the university where the SNCC was began?
(a) Methodist University.
(b) Wake Forrest University.
(c) Shaw University.
(d) Campbell University.

8. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?
(a) October 1, 1965.
(b) December 1, 1965.
(c) December 1, 1955.
(d) October 1, 1995.

9. How many student demonstrators were arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 27, 1960?
(a) 300.
(b) 200.
(c) 400.
(d) 100.

10. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?
(a) Salem County.
(b) Prince Edward County.
(c) Franklin County.
(d) Bedford County.

11. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr., attend school to obtain his Bachelor of Divinity degree?
(a) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
(b) Fuller Theological Seminary.
(c) Southern Baptist Seminary.
(d) Crozer Theological Seminary.

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

13. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) California.

14. What group organized the first integrated group of interstate travelers?
(a) MIL.
(b) CORE.
(c) NUL.
(d) NAACP.

15. On what date did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) April 19, 1957.
(b) October 19, 1958.
(c) November 29, 1959.
(d) December 5, 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. King plead with Americans not to default upon during his "I Have A Dream" speech?

2. What happened to James Farmer's bus as he was traveling from Washington, D.C., to the South?

3. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?

4. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?

5. What book was Dr. King signing on September 20, 1958?

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