View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people attended Dr. King's first anti-war demonstration?
(a) More than 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. What is the name of one of the African American leaders that argued for the African American need for self-respect and self-help?
(a) Jonathon Swift.
(b) Michael Schwerner.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Ella Fitzgerald.

3. What church was bombed that led Dr. King to deliver a sermon at the funeral of the little girls killed during the bombing?
(a) Southern Baptist Church of Virginia.
(b) First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) 16th Street Baptist Church.

4. Why were Western nations uncomfortable with the USSR?
(a) Because it still allowed slavery.
(b) Because it espoused communism.
(c) Because it spoke out against the U.S.
(d) Because it allowed Africans to hold public offices.

5. What year was the atom bombed dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1955.

6. How many people were arrested during the demonstrations in Selma, Alabama?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3.

7. According to Chapter 12:"Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," who was the great shaman of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Louis Farrakhan.
(c) Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

8. Despite opposition, what two universities did President John F. Kennedy authorize federal marshals to accompany black students to registration?
(a) Universities of Mississippi and Alabama.
(b) Universities of Georgia and Ohio.
(c) Universities of North and South Carolina.
(d) Universities of Florida and Louisiana.

9. When did W.E.B. DuBois die?
(a) June 24, 1957.
(b) June 11, 1964.
(c) August 27, 1963.
(d) October 18, 1964.

10. What was the ethnicity of the people who attended the anti-war demonstration that Dr. King led?
(a) Black only.
(b) Hispanic, black, and white.
(c) White only.
(d) Black and white.

11. What magazine did Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined" appear in?
(a) New York Times Magazine.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) Time Magazine.
(d) Harper's Review.

12. Who did Dr. King go to help in Memphis, Tennessee, during a strike against unfair labor practices?
(a) African American factory linesmen.
(b) African American dock loaders.
(c) African American sanitation workers.
(d) African American farm workers.

13. What did Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined" discuss?
(a) African American men and their role in the family.
(b) African Americans in the war.
(c) African American nationalism being embraced by the black community.
(d) African Americans' need to vote.

14. During the Cold War, what were civil rights activists accused of being?
(a) Loyalists.
(b) Unappreciative and un-American.
(c) Communists.
(d) Desperate.

15. What work did Dr. King publish, according to Chapter 11 ("I Have A Dream"), when he was considered the "prophet of the hour"?
(a) "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life."
(b) "I've Been to the Mountaintop."
(c) "Why We Can't Wait."
(d) "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?"

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Dr. King accept his Nobel Peace Prize?

2. What was the broad strategy of the Black Power Movement?

3. Where did Dr. King speak publicly in an anti-war demonstration?

4. What kind of testing was banned on February 4, 1965, used to deny rights to vote?

5. When did Dr. King speak publicly in an anti-war demonstration?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 489 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample