Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Final Test - Easy

Taylor Branch
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 109 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what college does King take a temporary position?
(a) Morehouse
(b) Princeton
(c) Mississippi
(d) Georgia

2. Why did Hoover and Kennedy never get along?
(a) Kennedy thought he was superior
(b) Hoover was a Communist
(c) Hoover was a racist
(d) Hoover thought he was superior

3. Who does King think will win the National Baptist Conference elections?
(a) Jesse Jackson
(b) James Taylor
(c) Vernon Johns
(d) Mike King

4. What does Kennedy want to register in the South?
(a) Children's votes
(b) Female votes
(c) White votes
(d) Negro votes

5. Which country's prime minister sends an official protest at the use of fire hoses?
(a) Uganda
(b) Japan
(c) Britain
(d) Switerland

6. Who does King claim sanctioned segregation?
(a) The CIA
(b) The FBI
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) Malcolm X

7. Where does King write his speech for the Washington march?
(a) The White House
(b) His hotel room
(c) A church
(d) A meadow

8. What does Annell Ponder teach?
(a) Literacy
(b) Biology
(c) Maths
(d) German

9. What do Washington officials ban shops from selling before the march?
(a) Fireworks
(b) Medicine
(c) Guns
(d) Liquor

10. What position does Jackson remove King from?
(a) President of the SNCC
(b) Vice President of the Sunday School Board
(c) Vice President of NAACP
(d) Preacher at the Dexter Church

11. Who does King complain to about police brutality?
(a) The CIA
(b) The Justice Department
(c) President Kennedy
(d) The Police Department

12. Where is the SCLC convention?
(a) Jackson
(b) Memphis
(c) Birmingham
(d) New York

13. What does King lead a mall to the courthouse to do?
(a) Chant
(b) Pray
(c) Demonstrate
(d) Sing

14. What does Hoover use to justify investigating King?
(a) The Korean War
(b) O'Dell's Communist affiliations
(c) The Missile Crisis
(d) The Vietnam War

15. Who does the Judge tell Sam Block to stop working for?
(a) The NCP
(b) The SNCC
(c) The SAC
(d) The NAACP

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Kennedy and the heads of the Civil Rights groups create in New York?

2. What does King reveal a habit of keeping?

3. What charges do the FBI investigate in this chapter?

4. Where do the Civil Rights leaders make their speeches in Washington?

5. What does a man fracture when he falls over in a scuffle?

(see the answer keys)

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