Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of school is Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary?
(a) A Negro school for girls
(b) A Nunnery
(c) A White school for girls
(d) A Catholic school for girls

2. What kind of commitee does the Nashville mayor appoint?
(a) All white
(b) All men
(c) Biracial
(d) All black

3. Who is Martin Luther King competing for a position at Dexter church with?
(a) Alan McNamus
(b) Jack White
(c) Walter McCall
(d) Vernon Johns

4. What do both candidates think will be the major issue in their presidential campaign?
(a) National debt
(b) Vietnam
(c) Cuba
(d) Civil Rights

5. Who does Daddy King want Martin Luther King, Jr. to marry?
(a) Juanita Scott
(b) Winona Ryder
(c) Betty
(d) Coretta

6. What do organizers name the boycott organization?
(a) MIA
(b) NGG
(c) FCI
(d) PTT

7. Who has dinner with the Freedom Riders when they arrive in Atlanta?
(a) Malcolm X
(b) Martin Luther King
(c) Robert Kennedy
(d) Mike King

8. What did Mike King's father do for a living?
(a) Shop keeper
(b) Reverend
(c) Sharecropper
(d) Soldier

9. Where did King's friend organize a similar boycott?
(a) Memphis
(b) Baton Rogue
(c) Chapeau Rouge
(d) Jackson

10. What did Johns begin to sell on the streets?
(a) Fruits and vegetables
(b) Clothes
(c) Lemonade
(d) Bibles

11. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?
(a) French
(b) Biology
(c) English
(d) History

12. What does King's speech stress the importance of?
(a) Non-violence
(b) Equality
(c) Patience
(d) Justice and love

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

14. What did James B. Pritchard teach?
(a) The Old Testament
(b) Negro literature
(c) Biology
(d) The New Testament

15. Where does Faubus fly to to talk to Eisenhower?
(a) Alaska
(b) Hawaii
(c) Rhode Island
(d) Isle of Man

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people did the Dexter Avenue Church attract?

2. Why does Robert Kennedy begin to shy away from King?

3. What driving offense do the police arrest King for?

4. What does King organize to help people get to work?

5. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?

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