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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 is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1956.

2. 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) Charleston.
(b) Greensboro.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Atlanta.

3. What does NUL stand for?
(a) Ninth Unity League.
(b) National Uniform League.
(c) National Urban League.
(d) Necessary Under Law.

4. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?
(a) Triad High School.
(b) Centralia West High School.
(c) Central High School.
(d) Wesclin High School.

5. At some points, how did Dr. King help to keep the SCLC's cash flow problems from shutting down due to financial ruin?
(a) King sold personal possessions to keep the SCLC afloat.
(b) King asked for donations from wealthy people.
(c) King put money from his speaking engagements into the SCLC.
(d) King worked multiple jobs to keep the SCLC afloat.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did participation by African American churches in American public life surge?

2. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?

3. What major movement followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Sit-In Movement?

4. What date did the Montgomery buses become integrated?

5. What staff member from the SCLC helped young people from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to think for themselves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what is the primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination?

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

5. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," there were eight descriptions of the "New Negro." What were three of the eight of the descriptions?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. When Rosa Parks was asked why she did not move from her seat on the bus, what did she answer?

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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