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. Who does Powell say he will claim King is having an affair with?
(a) Malcolm X
(b) Kennedy
(c) Rustin
(d) Levin

2. What kind of people did the Dexter Avenue Church attract?
(a) Poor people
(b) Highly intelligent people
(c) Uneducated people
(d) Angry people

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

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

5. What does King study in his father's house in this chapter?
(a) Frederick Douglas
(b) Adolf Hitler
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Jan Hus

6. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?
(a) They ran over police
(b) They gave free rides
(c) They advertized the boycott
(d) They lowered their fares

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

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

9. What did a group of Negroes form in 1867?
(a) The first Baptist Church
(b) The First Baptist Church of Montgomery
(c) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(d) SNCC

10. Why did the fare increase do little to help the bus company's financial problems?
(a) It was Christmas
(b) People stopped riding them all together.
(c) People insisted on paying the old fares
(d) There were no Negro riders

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

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

13. What does a mob throw through the back window of a bus?
(a) A fire bomb
(b) A brick
(c) A grenade
(d) A nail bomb

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which government building does King meet Nixon?

2. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?

3. What does Robinson's letter call to boycott?

4. Who does Daddy King want Martin Luther King, Jr. to marry?

5. In what state does Robert Kennedy make a speech in this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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