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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 was James Farmer's position with CORE?
(a) Vice President.
(b) Regional Supervisor.
(c) National Director.
(d) Account Manager.

2. When did Dr. King write the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) May 28, 1955.
(b) October 3, 1959.
(c) April 16, 1963.
(d) June 24, 1957.

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

4. Who were Dr. and Mrs. King guests of during their stay in India?
(a) Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
(b) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
(c) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
(d) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

5. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Newnan, Georgia.
(d) Mobile, Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When did the African nation of Ghana acquire its independence from British rule?

5. At what "Anniversary Conference" of the NUL did Dr. King deliver a speech?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," what would it take for the "master race" to civilize African Americans "to a degree"?

7. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why had some African Americans become cynical and disillusioned?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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