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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 Illinois city approved a plan that prevented the erection of an interracial housing development on December 21, 1959?
(a) Chester.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Du Quoin.
(d) Deerfield.

2. What is the date noted at the beginning of Chapter 4, "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools"?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

3. Who was the first president of the Montgomery Improvement Association?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.
(d) Melba Patillo Beals.

4. What happened to Dr. King as he was signing books on September 20, 1958?
(a) He was punched.
(b) He was stabbed.
(c) He was verbally assaulted.
(d) He was shot.

5. What Democratic presidential candidate was running against Richard Nixon in 1960?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?

4. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did King describe as "the face of the future"?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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