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

2. What was the name of one of the first integrated group of interstate travelers that later served as Dr. King's chief strategists?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Bayard Rustin.
(c) Reverend Oliver Brown.
(d) Emmett Till.

3. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) Participating in a conference for racial equality.
(b) Eating with a white man at a "White Only" diner.
(c) Riding on an interstate bus with other activists.
(d) Participating in civil rights demonstrations.

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

5. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous black child psychologist embraced the liberal idea that where there is no equal opportunity to succeed there can be no social equality?

2. With whom from the NAACP did Dr. King argue regarding non-violent movement against racism?

3. Why did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

4. What book was Dr. King signing on September 20, 1958?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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," what did King describe as "the face of the future"?

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

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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