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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) come into being?
(a) April 15-17, 1960.
(b) December 1-3, 1959.
(c) December 1-3, 1964.
(d) April 15-17, 1965.

4. What book was Dr. King signing on September 20, 1958?
(a) Why We Can't Wait.
(b) The Measure of a Man.
(c) Strength to Love.
(d) Stride Toward Freedom.

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

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

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

9. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
(a) Believe.
(b) Common Threads.
(c) Renounced.
(d) Liberation.

10. When did the Montgomery Bus boycott begin?
(a) October 1, 1955.
(b) December 5, 1955.
(c) October 1, 1965.
(d) December 1, 1965.

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

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

13. 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) Emmett Till.
(c) Bayard Rustin.
(d) Reverend Oliver Brown.

14. At some points, how did Dr. King help to keep the SCLC's cash flow problems from shutting down due to financial ruin?
(a) King asked for donations from wealthy people.
(b) King worked multiple jobs to keep the SCLC afloat.
(c) King sold personal possessions to keep the SCLC afloat.
(d) King put money from his speaking engagements into the SCLC.

15. What year was Mohandas Gandhi assassinated?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?

2. What were the dates of the demonstration at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?

3. What is the date noted at the beginning of Chapter 4, "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools"?

4. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?

5. What was the name of the man whose daughter was the focus behind the Brown vs. Board (1954) court case?

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