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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 group organized the first integrated group of interstate travelers?
(a) NUL.
(b) NAACP.
(c) MIL.
(d) CORE.

2. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?
(a) Sit-ins.
(b) Call to removal of ignorance.
(c) Refusal to move.
(d) Testing the system.

3. What year was Mohandas Gandhi assassinated?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1950.

4. How many student demonstrators were arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 27, 1960?
(a) 100.
(b) 400.
(c) 300.
(d) 200.

5. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?
(a) Montgomery Bus Headquarters.
(b) Dr. King's home.
(c) The conference site for the MIA.
(d) Hattie Cotton Elementary School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?

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

3. What two organizations invited Dr. King to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on June 4, 1957?

4. When associated with the Civil Rights Movement, what did demonstrators consider their arrests?

5. According to Dr. King, during his first national address, why were inhabitants of the twentieth century privileged?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," why should new graduates become dedicated fighters for civil rights?

2. 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?

3. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the denial of the right to vote do to African Americans?

4. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would have happened in the United States if the country were to gain three million "southern Negro" votes?

5. 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?

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

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

8. What was ironic about King's entry into the Crozer Theological Seminary in September of 1948?

9. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why had some African Americans become cynical and disillusioned?

10. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would "this generation" not take?

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