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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?
(a) Black Baptist.
(b) Black Christian.
(c) Midwestern Baptist.
(d) Southern Baptist.

2. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Jesus.

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. To which biblical person was Martin Luther King, Jr. compared?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Judas.
(c) Moses.
(d) Adam.

5. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
(a) 217.
(b) 436.
(c) 381.
(d) 198.

6. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?
(a) The Chronicle.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Southern Reporter.
(d) The Washington Post.

7. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1857.

8. What did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?
(a) Brainwashed them.
(b) Lied to them.
(c) Dehumanized them.
(d) Stripped them of their freedoms.

9. What did the person who called King after a steering committee meeting threaten to do if King did not leave town in three days?
(a) Blow up King's church.
(b) Bomb King's next rally.
(c) Kill King's wife and daughter.
(d) Kill King and blow up his home.

10. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

11. What was King's favorite image used to show the importance of being the best in your profession?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Street-sweeper.
(c) Bus driver.
(d) Chimney sweep.

12. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Ford.
(d) Kennedy.

13. In what year was school segregation declared unconstitutional?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1962.

14. What kind of resources did the use of white, liberal Protestant religion offer to King in regard to the movement?
(a) Intellectual resources.
(b) Spiritual resources.
(c) Common Christian resources.
(d) Faith-bound resources.

15. What tradition was Black Christianity associated with?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Surfism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Integrationalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?

2. At what age did King join the Ebenezer Baptist Church?

3. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?

4. What German term did King use to refer to his belief that "the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness [we have] cosmic companionship"?

5. Where did Cone say that the understanding of King's faith and theology began?

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