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. Where is Medgar Evans shot?
(a) On a bus
(b) His driveway
(c) A restaurant
(d) Outside the White House

2. 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

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

4. What kind of animal attacks Moses?
(a) A dog
(b) A cat
(c) A cougar
(d) A bear

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

6. What is Slater King's job?
(a) Policeman
(b) Lawyer
(c) Builder
(d) Judge

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

8. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?
(a) Thanksgiving
(b) New Year's Day
(c) Easter Sunday
(d) Independence Day

9. What takes place in October of 1962?
(a) The Cuban Missile Crisis
(b) The Harlem Riots
(c) The Los Angeles Riots
(d) Presidential Elections

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does a restaurant owner set off in Sam Block's face?
(a) A fire extinguisher
(b) A fire hose
(c) A petrol bomb
(d) A nail bomb

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kennedy's administration think Levison is from?

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

3. What does Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?

4. What does Hoover use to justify investigating King?

5. What is C.B King's job?

(see the answer keys)

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