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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the police bring out when they decided the hoses were not enough?
(a) Tanks
(b) K-9 units
(c) Monitor guns
(d) Machine gunners

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

3. What does a man fracture when he falls over in a scuffle?
(a) His leg
(b) His arm
(c) His collar bone
(d) His skull

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

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

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

7. Why did the sheriff shoot a black man?
(a) For flirting with a Negro mistress
(b) For flirting with a white prostitute
(c) For swearing at him
(d) For drinking on the streets

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

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

10. What does a monitor gun combine the power of?
(a) Three hoses
(b) Mustard gas and laughing gas
(c) Mustard gas and two hoses
(d) Tear gas and laughing gas

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

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

13. What does Bull Connors fire at the church congregation?
(a) Shot guns
(b) Ray guns
(c) Monitor guns
(d) Fire guns

14. What charges do the FBI investigate in this chapter?
(a) Treason
(b) Perjury
(c) Murder
(d) Police brutality

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Moses use his one phone call to call?

2. Where does King write his speech for the Washington march?

3. What is the name of King's lawyer?

4. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?

5. What do Washington officials ban shops from selling before the march?

(see the answer keys)

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