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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 church was King's father a minister of?
(a) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(b) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) South Central Baptist Church.

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

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1965.

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

5. In what year did Martin Delany write "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of Colored People of the United States"?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1909.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what did Cone state that King was, rather than a "academic theologian"?

2. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?

3. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?

4. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?

5. In what year was Malcolm X paroled from Charlestown State Prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor did King use to show the importance of "wholehearted work"?

2. What did black leaders believe was necessary to gain "political and economic benefits"?

3. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

4. Where and when did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X first meet?

5. How are the two distinct religious traditions in African-American communities linked?

6. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

7. Why was Malcolm portrayed as a "messiah of hate"?

8. What three factors formed the context for King's idea of the "American Dream"?

9. How did Malcolm justify his stand that blacks should not integrate with whites?

10. What are the two distinct religious traditions in the African-American community?

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