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 is King asked to write a book about?
(a) The Montgomery Bus Boycott
(b) His life
(c) The Old Testament
(d) Ghana

2. What church does Reverend A.D. Williams take over?
(a) Abraham
(b) Dexter
(c) Ebenezer
(d) Frederick Douglas

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

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

5. In which government building does King meet Nixon?
(a) The Capitol Building
(b) The White House
(c) The Oracle
(d) The Pentagon

6. What country does Betty's family come from?
(a) France
(b) Romania
(c) Germany
(d) Britain

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

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

9. What does a newspaper assign their reporter Tom Johnson to find out?
(a) Corruption in the MIA
(b) The power behind the MIA
(c) Racism in the police force
(d) King's upbringing

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

11. What did the Dexter Avenue Church find it difficult to find?
(a) Funding
(b) A church
(c) Suitable preachers
(d) A congregation

12. What does the city council approve in an attempt to improve the bus company's financial troubles?
(a) Equality of seating
(b) Christmas shopping buses
(c) Less buses
(d) A fare increase

13. What do the courts accuse King of not paying taxes for?
(a) Income earned from Civil Rights work
(b) Income earned from lecturing
(c) Income earned from preaching
(d) Income earned from writing

14. What does the police commissioner call the taxi drivers?
(a) Christian men
(b) Nigger lovers
(c) Enemies of the state
(d) A taxicab army

15. What does King organize to help people get to work?
(a) Horse and carts
(b) A carpool
(c) Freedom trains
(d) A freedom bus

Short Answer Questions

1. What grade does Mike have to start in a high school?

2. What university did Du Bois work at?

3. In what state do the Freedom Riders encounter their first problems?

4. What do organizers call the march on Washington?

5. What did King have to work on as well as working on church business?

(see the answer keys)

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