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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Shades of Politics,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did a group of Negroes form in 1877?
(a) Black Power
(b) SNCC
(c) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(d) Maryland Baptist Group

2. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?
(a) Restaurants
(b) Major cities
(c) Government
(d) The armed forces

3. Who is the candidate for the Republicans in the 1960 presidential election?
(a) Lyndon Johnson
(b) Gerald Ford
(c) Richard Nixon
(d) Robert Kennedy

4. What was the name of the preacher who caused a scandal in 1946?
(a) Mike King
(b) Davis Love
(c) Samuel Kitten
(d) Vernon Johns

5. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?
(a) Nietzsche
(b) Gandhi
(c) Marx
(d) Kafka

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Nashville police threaten to arrest all protesters for?

2. What is the title of Niebuhr's book that King reads in this chapter?

3. Who does Powell say he will claim King is having an affair with?

4. In whose yard does a bomb explode in this chapter?

5. What does Diane Nash refuse to do?

(see the answer key)

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