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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Guy Carawan arrested for trying to enter?
(a) The White House
(b) A town hall
(c) A church
(d) Congress

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

3. Where does Kennedy meet the heads of the Civil Rights groups?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) San Francisco
(c) Chicago
(d) New York

4. Which writer does Robert Kennedy enlist the help of?
(a) Richard Wright
(b) James Baldwin
(c) James Ellroy
(d) Leonard Cohen

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

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

7. What reason does the sheriff give for shooting the black man?
(a) Accidental
(b) Self defense
(c) Hate
(d) Temporary insanity

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

9. Who do demonstrators kill outside the Lyceum?
(a) An FBI agent
(b) A reporter
(c) A Federal marshall
(d) Meredith

10. Who does the Chamber of Congress President in Birmingham want to get rid of?
(a) The governor
(b) The police commissioner
(c) The mayor
(d) The sheriff

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

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

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

14. Who did the hitman share a mistress with?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) President Kennedy
(c) Edgar Hoover
(d) Martin Luther King

15. What is the name of King's lawyer?
(a) Hunter Davis
(b) Paul Loretti
(c) James Evans
(d) David Regan

Short Answer Questions

1. What does A New Orleans newspaper accuse O'Dell of being a member of?

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

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

4. What does King ask people to do for those Negroes who have yet to learn the non-violent ways?

5. What position does Jackson remove King from?

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