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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the Democratic candidate in the 1960 presidential election?
(a) John Kennedy
(b) Jackie Robinson
(c) James Elroy
(d) Robert Kennedy

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

4. Where does King receive an offer to teach?
(a) New York University
(b) Morehouse College
(c) Boston College
(d) Dillard University

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

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

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

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

9. What political party is Levison a member of?
(a) Communist
(b) Repubilicans
(c) Labor
(d) KKK

10. What does King offer to Wyatt Tee Walker?
(a) The directorship of SCLC
(b) Carrot cake
(c) The Presidency of NAACP
(d) The preaching position at Dexter

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

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

13. In what state do the Freedom Riders encounter their first problems?
(a) Noth Carolina
(b) Georgia
(c) South Carolina
(d) Mississippi

14. In whose yard does a bomb explode in this chapter?
(a) Fred Grey's
(b) Martin Luther King's
(c) E.D. Nixon's
(d) Rosa Parks'

15. In what newspaper does Rustin run an ad to help Martin Luther King?
(a) The Los Angeles Times
(b) The New York Times
(c) The San Francisco Chronicle
(d) The Chicago Tribune

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rockefeller name Morehouse College after?

2. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?

3. Who does Kennedy select as his running mate?

4. What African country does King fly to?

5. Who has dinner with the Freedom Riders when they arrive in Atlanta?

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