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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the dates of the demonstration at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?
(a) December 5 and 7, 1961.
(b) August 5 and 9, 1961.
(c) June 5 and 7, 1961.
(d) July 9 and 16, 1961.

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

3. What position did Dr. King, while thirty-one, accept at a Baptist church?
(a) Youth pastor.
(b) Pastor.
(c) Co-pastor.
(d) Deacon.

4. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To resist Jim Crow laws.
(b) To form violent organizations legally.
(c) To form anti-government organizations.
(d) To make people angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of one of the first integrated group of interstate travelers that later served as Dr. King's chief strategists?

2. When was the second march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

3. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?

4. What Illinois city approved a plan that prevented the erection of an interracial housing development on December 21, 1959?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Rosa Parks was asked why she did not move from her seat on the bus, what did she answer?

2. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the problems associated with the shift from rural to urban life for African Americans?

3. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the march demonstrate to him?

4. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did many black men lose their self-respect?

5. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were second-class methods?

6. What were the three reasons that blacks gave when asked why they did not expect the Montgomery Bus Boycott to succeed?

7. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what two fronts must the African American work on during the period of social change?

8. What happened on December 1, 1955, to initiate the forward movement of the Civil Rights Movement?

9. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were some of the factors that led to a new sense of self-respect on the part of the African American?

10. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did King describe as "the face of the future"?

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