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 do the Alabama police charge King with?
(a) Speeding
(b) Perjury
(c) Tax evasion
(d) Murder

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

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

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

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

6. What was King given a twelve-month suspended sentence for?
(a) Perjury
(b) Driving with an out-of-state license
(c) Traffic violations
(d) Stealing food

7. Where did King and Coretta marry?
(a) At Dexter Baptist Church
(b) At King's parents home
(c) At Coretta's parents' home
(d) At Boston College

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

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

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

11. Why is the girl unsuitable for public scrutiny?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) The KKK are threatening her
(c) She is mentally disturbed
(d) She is too young

12. Where is Hartsfield the mayor?
(a) Atlanta
(b) Miami
(c) Nashville
(d) New York

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

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

15. What do both candidates think will be the major issue in their presidential campaign?
(a) Cuba
(b) National debt
(c) Civil Rights
(d) Vietnam

Short Answer Questions

1. What will the Democrats label King as if he does not call off plans to picket the Democratic Convention?

2. What does King study in his father's house in this chapter?

3. Which of the following countries does Mike King not visit on his trip abroad?

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

5. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?

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