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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who takes over the running of the carpool?
(a) Rufus Lewis
(b) Jack O'Dell
(c) Bob Moses
(d) Vernon Johns

3. What does John Lewis go to the restaurant to eat?
(a) Fired chicken
(b) Hamburgers
(c) Steaks
(d) Boiled chicken

4. What did James B. Pritchard teach?
(a) The New Testament
(b) Biology
(c) Negro literature
(d) The Old Testament

5. Who does Nixon choose as his running mate?
(a) Gerald Ford
(b) Henry Kissinger
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge
(d) Lyndon Johnson

6. Where did King's four friends go on trial?
(a) New York City
(b) Montgomery
(c) Los Angeles
(d) Jackson

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

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

9. What does the black driver do when a black girl refuses to give up her seat for a white person?
(a) Beats her up
(b) Threatens her with a gun
(c) Phones the police
(d) Throws her off the bus

10. 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 lowered their fares
(d) They advertized the boycott

11. Whose vote does Robert Kennedy worry his brother is losing?
(a) Working class men
(b) Southern whites
(c) Women
(d) Southern blacks

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

13. What do the Nashville police threaten to arrest all protesters for?
(a) Trespassing
(b) Breaking and entering
(c) Breach of the peace
(d) Loitering

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What university did Du Bois work at?

2. Why is there a riot at the University of Alabama?

3. Where does Bevel stage protests?

4. What does John share with the judge?

5. What does the city council approve in an attempt to improve the bus company's financial troubles?

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