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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Levison's job?
(a) Coal miner
(b) Lawyer
(c) Factory manager
(d) Doctor

2. What does Robinson's letter call to boycott?
(a) Hotels
(b) Restaurants
(c) Cafes
(d) City buses

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

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

5. Who was Dexter's preacher after Johns?
(a) Malcolm X
(b) Elmore Leonard
(c) Martin Luther King
(d) Mike King

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

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

8. What will the Democrats label King as if he does not call off plans to picket the Democratic Convention?
(a) A murderer
(b) A homosexual
(c) A thief
(d) An Uncle Tom

9. What does Diane Nash refuse to do?
(a) Talk
(b) Give up her seat
(c) Leave a restaurant
(d) Pay her fine

10. Where is Juanita Sellers from?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Chicago
(c) New York
(d) Atlanta

11. What is the title of Niebuhr's book that King reads in this chapter?
(a) Moral Man and Immoral Society
(b) Looting the World
(c) Non-violence and Revolution
(d) Passions of an Everday Man

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

13. Where is Ralph Abernathy the pastor?
(a) Dexter
(b) Ebenezer
(c) The First Baptist
(d) The Second Baptist

14. Where does King study for his doctorate?
(a) Chicago University
(b) Boston College
(c) University of Virginia
(d) New York University

15. What was Coretta Scott hoping to become after college?
(a) An actress
(b) A housewife
(c) A song writer
(d) A classical singer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Rockefeller name Morehouse College after?

3. What do the police convict Rosa Parks of?

4. What did Martin Luther King initially intend to train for?

5. Who does Robert Kennedy fear racial tension will make USA appear weak to?

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