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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How long did it take for Dr. King's address to students at Berkeley (1957) to be published?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) Two years.
(d) One week.

7. When did the President remove the National Guard troops from the high school in Arkansas?
(a) December 1, 1955.
(b) May 8, 1958.
(c) May 19, 1957.
(d) August 9, 1957.

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

9. 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) Crozer Theological Seminary.
(d) Southern Baptist Seminary.

10. Who were Dr. and Mrs. King guests of during their stay in India?
(a) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
(b) Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
(c) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
(d) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

11. 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 worked multiple jobs to keep the SCLC afloat.
(b) King asked for donations from wealthy people.
(c) King put money from his speaking engagements into the SCLC.
(d) King sold personal possessions to keep the SCLC afloat.

12. How old was Martin Luther King, Jr., when Gandhi was assassinated?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 20.

13. What major movement followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Sit-In Movement?
(a) Black Panther Movement.
(b) Freedom Summer.
(c) March on Washington.
(d) Freedom Ride.

14. When was the second march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?
(a) December 5, 1956.
(b) April 18, 1959.
(c) April 18, 1958.
(d) December 5, 1958.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group organized the first integrated group of interstate travelers?

2. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

3. On what date did the head of the Nation of Islam call upon African Americans to form a state of their own?

4. Dr. King wanted to make sure that advocates of Black Consciousness did not associate racial pride with what?

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

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