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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) January 31, 1961.
(b) May 17, 1957.
(c) July 4, 1943.
(d) August 12, 1971.

2. In what year did Malcolm convert to Islam?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1954.

3. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?
(a) Trunda Blase.
(b) Deborah Miller.
(c) Margie Mathers.
(d) Claudette Colvin.

4. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Peter.
(d) Galations.

5. Who did Malcolm X claim killed his father?
(a) The White Supremacists.
(b) The Black Legionnaires.
(c) America.
(d) The Ku Klux Klan.

6. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Washington Times.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Time.

7. At what age did King join the Ebenezer Baptist Church?
(a) 5.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

8. What was the name of Malcolm X's wife?
(a) Ilyasah.
(b) Betty.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Mary.

9. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

10. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Canaan.
(b) White.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Eden.

11. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?
(a) The Constitution and the Koran.
(b) The Bible and Gospel songs.
(c) The Declaration of Independence and the Bible.
(d) His teachers at school.

12. In what type of store did Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father experience racism together?
(a) A book store.
(b) A shoe store.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A general store.

13. What religious affiliation was Malcolm X aligned with?
(a) Marxist Fascist.
(b) Muslim Nationalist.
(c) Buddhist Nationalist.
(d) Christian Imperialist.

14. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

15. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?
(a) Gaius.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) John Stewert Mill.
(d) Descartes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?

2. How tall was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

3. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?

4. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?

5. What did Peter Bailey call Malcolm X?

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