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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the Justice Department tell King has links with Communism?
(a) Malcolm X
(b) O'Dell
(c) Rustin
(d) Levin

2. What is C.B King's job?
(a) Judge
(b) Policeman
(c) Lawyer
(d) Real estate broker

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

4. Who did the government hire a hitman to kill?
(a) Khruschev
(b) Castro
(c) Malcolm X
(d) King

5. Whose phone does Hoover bug in this chapter?
(a) Levinson's
(b) Kennedy's
(c) Eisenhower's
(d) King's

6. Where is Seigenthaler when Kennedy calls him?
(a) Jail
(b) Work
(c) Church
(d) Hospital

7. What newspaper was the reporter in the church in Mississippi from?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The KKK Observer
(c) The Jackson Packet
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle

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

9. What is Moses struggling to find in this chapter?
(a) Freedom Riders
(b) People to donate money
(c) People to vote
(d) People to pray

10. In what city does King gather thousands of dollars of donations?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) New York
(c) San Francisco
(d) Chicago

11. What was Hartman Turnbow the first Negro to do in Holmes County?
(a) Register to vote
(b) Arrest a white man
(c) Join the NAACP
(d) Join the Free Riders

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

13. What does the registrar do to John Hardy?
(a) Spits on him
(b) Shoots him
(c) Pistol whips him
(d) Stabs him

14. What does Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?
(a) Sing the national anthem
(b) Stop
(c) Take trains
(d) Carry guns

15. What does the SNCC organize a fundraiser to buy?
(a) Food
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Coffee
(d) Clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer does Robert Kennedy enlist the help of?

2. At what college does King take a temporary position?

3. Why did the sheriff shoot a black man?

4. What takes place in October of 1962?

5. What is Slater King's job?

(see the answer keys)

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