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

Taylor Branch
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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 people did the Dexter Avenue Church attract?
(a) Poor people
(b) Uneducated people
(c) Highly intelligent people
(d) Angry people

2. What is Burke Marshall appointed head of?
(a) NAACP
(b) The Civil Rights Division
(c) SNCC
(d) The KKK

3. Why did Moses drop out of graduate school?
(a) To care for his mother
(b) To become a Civil Right leader
(c) To care for his father
(d) To travel

4. What does Crozier Theological Seminary have in its basement rec room?
(a) Dart boards
(b) Computers
(c) Pool tables
(d) A science lab

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

6. What do organizers call the march on Washington?
(a) Freedom March
(b) Prayer Pilgrimage
(c) Revolution Road
(d) March of the Kings

7. What member of Farmer's family dies in this chapter?
(a) His mother
(b) His daughter
(c) His father
(d) His son

8. Who does Robert Kennedy fear racial tension will make USA appear weak to?
(a) The Soviets
(b) The international community
(c) The Cubans
(d) The British

9. What is the name of the club King organizes at Boston?
(a) The Religious Club
(b) The Communist Club
(c) The Philosophical Club
(d) The Freedom Club

10. Which of the following countries does Mike King not visit on his trip abroad?
(a) Germany
(b) France
(c) Italy
(d) Romania

11. Who does Kennedy select as his running mate?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) James Fox
(c) Lyndon Johnson
(d) Jimmy Carter

12. What university did Du Bois work at?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Virgina
(c) New York
(d) Atlanta

13. What does John share with the judge?
(a) A house
(b) A mistress
(c) A love of classical history
(d) A love of baseball

14. Who does John Kennedy offer his support to in this chapter?
(a) Levin
(b) Moses
(c) Coretta King
(d) Rustin

15. Which of the following is a title of one of John's sermons?
(a) People are Born to Hate
(b) Blacks and White its All Alright
(c) It's Safe to Murder Negroes in Montgomery
(d) Down and Out and Almost Dead

Short Answer Questions

1. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?

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

3. Where does Bevel stage protests?

4. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?

5. What do both candidates think will be the major issue in their presidential campaign?

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