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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 city was the home to the beginning of the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians when it began February 1, 1960?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Greensboro.
(d) Memphis.

2. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?
(a) "Are you Martin Luther King?"
(b) "Is this your book?"
(c) "Are you responsible for all this civil rights nonsense?"
(d) "Are you crazy?"

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

4. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
(a) Common Threads.
(b) Believe.
(c) Renounced.
(d) Liberation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

2. Dr. King wanted to make sure that advocates of Black Consciousness did not associate racial pride with what?

3. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?

4. What year was Mohandas Gandhi assassinated?

5. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What happened on December 5, 1955?

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

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," why did the young blacks need to begin to look at their future in a different light?

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

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

10. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did he think that white people thought blacks deserved (and enjoyed) second-class status?

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