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

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

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

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

5. What does A New Orleans newspaper accuse O'Dell of being a member of?
(a) The KKK
(b) The Nazi party
(c) The BNP
(d) The Communist party

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

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

8. Where does Kennedy's administration think Levison is from?
(a) Cuba
(b) Britain
(c) Vietnam
(d) Russia

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

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

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

12. Which comedian join the marches in Greenwood?
(a) Dick Gregory
(b) Richard Pryor
(c) Bill Crosby
(d) Lenny Bruce

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

14. What does King reveal a habit of keeping?
(a) Money
(b) A rank of cars
(c) A mistress
(d) Drugs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anderson call a meeting for Albany Movement supporters?

2. Who do the Justice Department tell King has links with Communism?

3. Who does King claim sanctioned segregation?

4. What does Bull Connors fire at the church congregation?

5. Which country's prime minister sends an official protest at the use of fire hoses?

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