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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
(a) Dexter Probst.
(b) Charlie Rose.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?
(a) Carolina.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Greenville.
(d) Montgomery.

4. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1965.

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

6. What religious affiliation was Martin Luther King, Jr. aligned with?
(a) Marxist.
(b) Muslim Nationalist.
(c) Buddist Imperialist.
(d) Christian Integrationist.

7. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A hater of the black movement."
(b) "A religious Uncle Tom."
(c) "A traitor."
(d) "A misnomer."

8. What did Malcolm X claim that the "black masses living at the bottom of the social heap" were living?
(a) An everlasting imprisonment.
(b) A social lynching.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A dream.

9. What was Malcolm's nickname in prison?
(a) Pain.
(b) Satan.
(c) Judas.
(d) Cain.

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

11. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?
(a) A minister.
(b) A black.
(c) An activist.
(d) A man.

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

13. On what date did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his famous "I Have A Dream" speech?
(a) August 28, 1963.
(b) September 14, 1954.
(c) October 26, 1975.
(d) July 1, 1984.

14. When was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1932.

15. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

2. When did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "Autobiography of Religious Development" sermon?

3. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?

4. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

5. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?

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