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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the nicknames of the African Americans who traveled from state to state even though they were prohibited from doing so because of white co-passengers?
(a) Riders.
(b) Freedom Challengers.
(c) Freedom Riders.
(d) Challengers.

2. 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) Mack Parker.
(b) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Ernest Green.

3. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?
(a) Emmett Till.
(b) T. McCants Stewart.
(c) Stokely Carmichael.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

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

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

6. 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. Kenneth B. Clark.
(c) Dr. Joseph M. Dryers.
(d) Dr. Terrance P. Patrick.

7. What is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1956.

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

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

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

11. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Mobile, Alabama.
(b) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(c) Newnan, Georgia.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

12. What two organizations invited Dr. King to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on June 4, 1957?
(a) MIA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) YMCA and YWCA.
(d) NUL.

13. In Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech, what does King say all Americans hold that is signed by the founders of the United States?
(a) An "unpaid ticket."
(b) A "lottery ticket."
(c) A "promise of intent."
(d) A "promissory note."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what magazine did Dr. King's famous series "How My Mind Has Changed" appear?

3. What is the name of the university where the SNCC was began?

4. What staff member from the SCLC helped young people from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to think for themselves?

5. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?

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