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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the black driver do when a black girl refuses to give up her seat for a white person?
(a) Beats her up
(b) Throws her off the bus
(c) Phones the police
(d) Threatens her with a gun

2. What does a newspaper assign their reporter Tom Johnson to find out?
(a) The power behind the MIA
(b) Corruption in the MIA
(c) Racism in the police force
(d) King's upbringing

3. What did Johns like to talk about in his sermons?
(a) Africa
(b) Baseball
(c) Racial discrimination
(d) World War II

4. What does the waitress pour over Lewis?
(a) Gravy
(b) Orange juice
(c) Cream
(d) Water

5. Where does King study for his doctorate?
(a) University of Virginia
(b) Chicago University
(c) Boston College
(d) New York University

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King organize to help people get to work?

2. What does Diane Nash refuse to do?

3. Who is the Democratic candidate in the 1960 presidential election?

4. What was the name of the preacher who caused a scandal in 1946?

5. In what newspaper does Rustin run an ad to help Martin Luther King?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when a girl refuses to move from her seat on the bus?

2. How does King arrange to transport the Negroes to and from work?

3. Why did the girl decide not to take the bus company to the courts?

4. Why is Robert Kennedy furious that his brother contacts Coretta King?

5. How does King meet Vice President Nixon?

6. How did the Rockefellers become involved with the Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary?

7. How did the movie theaters in Nashville react to people protesting outside?

8. How does King's Civil Rights work affect his preaching?

9. What were the differences between the First Baptist Church and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

10. What happens to John Lewis when he tries to order hamburgers at a bar?

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