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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Illinois city approved a plan that prevented the erection of an interracial housing development on December 21, 1959?
(a) Deerfield.
(b) Chester.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Du Quoin.

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

3. During what years did participation by African American churches in American public life surge?
(a) 1960-1970.
(b) 1930-1940.
(c) 1940-1950.
(d) 1950-1960.

4. Where did Dr. King attend college during his undergraduate studies?
(a) Morehouse College.
(b) Rollins College.
(c) Birmingham-Southern College.
(d) Rhodes College.

5. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Minority Travel Limitations.
(c) White Flight.
(d) Jim Crow.

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

7. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?
(a) SCLC and MIA.
(b) NAACP and SCLC.
(c) MIA and BCA.
(d) NAACP and BCA.

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

9. From whom did Dr. King say he learned about nonviolent resistance?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Sr.
(c) Reverend Theodore J. Jemison.
(d) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.

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

11. What Democratic presidential candidate was running against Richard Nixon in 1960?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

12. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To resist Jim Crow laws.
(b) To form anti-government organizations.
(c) To make people angry.
(d) To form violent organizations legally.

13. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., ordained to the Christian ministry?
(a) Morningside Baptist Church.
(b) First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
(c) South Baptist Church.
(d) Ebenezer Baptist Church.

14. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

15. What does NUL stand for?
(a) Ninth Unity League.
(b) Necessary Under Law.
(c) National Urban League.
(d) National Uniform League.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?

2. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?

3. Who was the cause of Dr. King's injury on September 20, 1958?

4. What position did Dr. King, while thirty-one, accept at a Baptist church?

5. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

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