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 was Williams' father's job?
(a) Reverend
(b) Coal miner
(c) Cook
(d) Shopkeeper

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?
(a) Biology
(b) English
(c) French
(d) History

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

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

9. What will the Democrats label King as if he does not call off plans to picket the Democratic Convention?
(a) A homosexual
(b) An Uncle Tom
(c) A thief
(d) A murderer

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

11. What did Johns like to talk about in his sermons?
(a) Baseball
(b) Africa
(c) Racial discrimination
(d) World War II

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

13. Who is the American President in this chapter?
(a) Kennedy
(b) Ford
(c) Eisenhower
(d) Nixon

14. What is the title of Niebuhr's book that King reads in this chapter?
(a) Moral Man and Immoral Society
(b) Non-violence and Revolution
(c) Looting the World
(d) Passions of an Everday Man

15. Where is Juanita Sellers from?
(a) Chicago
(b) Atlanta
(c) New Orleans
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Nashville police threaten to arrest all protesters for?

2. What kind of army does King build?

3. In what newspaper does Rustin run an ad to help Martin Luther King?

4. What was King given a twelve-month suspended sentence for?

5. What does a mob throw through the back window of a bus?

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