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 does the Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary change their name to?
(a) The School of Fun
(b) Rockefeller School
(c) King School
(d) Spelman School

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

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

4. What does King tell everyone to avoid as Christmas approaches?
(a) Restaurants
(b) Christmas shopping
(c) Parties
(d) The KKK

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

6. What kind of commitee does the Nashville mayor appoint?
(a) All men
(b) Biracial
(c) All black
(d) All white

7. What does Lewis write a list about for protesters?
(a) Do's and dont's
(b) How to keep their humor
(c) People to avoid
(d) What to bring with them

8. What does King associate pool tables with?
(a) Racism
(b) White people
(c) Rich people
(d) Low behavior

9. What country does Betty's family come from?
(a) France
(b) Romania
(c) Britain
(d) Germany

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

11. Why is there a riot at the University of Alabama?
(a) A Negro woman tries to enroll
(b) The KKK bomb a classroom
(c) The University hires a Negro teacher
(d) Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech on campus

12. What did King have to work on as well as working on church business?
(a) A novel
(b) His autobiography
(c) A series of paintings
(d) His dissertation

13. What does Crozier Theological Seminary have in its basement rec room?
(a) Dart boards
(b) Computers
(c) A science lab
(d) Pool tables

14. Who does Daddy King want Martin Luther King, Jr. to marry?
(a) Coretta
(b) Juanita Scott
(c) Betty
(d) Winona Ryder

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the Democratic candidate in the 1960 presidential election?

3. Where did King's friend organize a similar boycott?

4. What does King offer to Wyatt Tee Walker?

5. What did W.E.B Du Bois found?

(see the answer keys)

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