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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 did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?
(a) U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
(b) Equality for All Commission.
(c) Self-Determination for Activists Commission.
(d) Anti-Racial Commission.

2. When did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) come into being?
(a) December 1-3, 1959.
(b) April 15-17, 1960.
(c) April 15-17, 1965.
(d) December 1-3, 1964.

3. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?
(a) September 17, 1956.
(b) August 17, 1955.
(c) October 17, 1959.
(d) May 17, 1957.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?

2. What president announced the use of federal troops to escort nine children to high school in Arkansas?

3. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?

4. Who was the cause of Dr. King's injury on September 20, 1958?

5. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the successful precedents that showed that civil rights could be obtained peacefully?

3. 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?

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

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 "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why is racial injustice a national, and not a sectional, problem?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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