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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What do Kennedy and the heads of the Civil Rights groups create in New York?
(a) The Voter Education Project
(b) The Freedom Ride Project
(c) The Civil Rights Bill
(d) The Education for All Project

12. What does King ask people to do for those Negroes who have yet to learn the non-violent ways?
(a) Sing
(b) Donate food
(c) Pray
(d) Donate money

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Civil Rights leaders make their speeches in Washington?

2. What takes place in October of 1962?

3. Why did Hoover and Kennedy never get along?

4. What does the SNCC organize a fundraiser to buy?

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

(see the answer keys)

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