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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Chattanooga.

4. 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) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Ernest Green.

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

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

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

8. Dr. King reached out to his extensive religious contacts, including the National Baptist Convention, to organize what conference?
(a) Southern Religious Conference.
(b) Southern Baptist Conference.
(c) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) Montgomery Christian Conference.

9. How many students were expelled on March 2, 1960, by the Alabama Board of Education?
(a) 9.
(b) 2.
(c) 94.
(d) 36.

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

11. What famous black child psychologist embraced the liberal idea that where there is no equal opportunity to succeed there can be no social equality?
(a) Dr. Daniel N. Meyers.
(b) Dr. Terrance P. Patrick.
(c) Dr. Joseph M. Dryers.
(d) Dr. Kenneth B. Clark.

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

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

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

15. When did Dr. King celebrate his thirty-first (31) birthday?
(a) October 15, 1960.
(b) July 15, 1960.
(c) January 15, 1960.
(d) March 15, 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organizations invited Dr. King to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on June 4, 1957?

2. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

3. When associated with the Civil Rights Movement, what did demonstrators consider their arrests?

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

5. What city was the home to the beginning of the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians when it began February 1, 1960?

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