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

2. What president announced the use of federal troops to escort nine children to high school in Arkansas?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Wilson.

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

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

5. What movement involved civil rights activists who sought to challenge religious segregation?
(a) Free-ins.
(b) Sit-in.
(c) Pray-in.
(d) Choice-in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was James Farmer's position with CORE?

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

3. Where did Dr. King attend college during his undergraduate studies?

4. What did Dr. King plead with Americans not to default upon during his "I Have A Dream" speech?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," what were blacks asking for as part of the "southern pattern"?

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

5. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," how did the African American's awareness of the struggle for freedom in a worldwide realm help to account for a new sense of dignity?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

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