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

2. On what date did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) December 5, 1955.
(b) November 29, 1959.
(c) April 19, 1957.
(d) October 19, 1958.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Montgomery Bus boycott begin?

2. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4: "My Trip To the Land of Gandhi," Martin Luther King, Jr., described his fascination for India. Why did King hold a fascination for India?

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

3. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," how are the extreme race relations of the South explained?

4. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," why was it difficult for young people to realize the effectiveness of nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement?

5. What were the reasons that King's trip to India kept getting put off?

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

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

8. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why is racial injustice a national, and not a sectional, problem?

9. 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?

10. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what is the primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination?

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