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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. Who does Nixon choose as his running mate?
(a) Henry Kissinger
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge
(c) Gerald Ford
(d) Lyndon Johnson

2. Whose vote does Robert Kennedy worry his brother is losing?
(a) Women
(b) Southern whites
(c) Working class men
(d) Southern blacks

3. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?
(a) They gave free rides
(b) They advertized the boycott
(c) They lowered their fares
(d) They ran over police

4. What did W.E.B Du Bois found?
(a) The NCCG
(b) The RSPCA
(c) The NAACP
(d) The SCCP

5. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?
(a) Major cities
(b) The armed forces
(c) Restaurants
(d) Government

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does Betty's family come from?

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

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

4. What do the police convict Rosa Parks of?

5. Where does Faubus fly to to talk to Eisenhower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Kennedy declare in his speech in Georgia?

2. How did Rockefeller change the school?

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

4. How does King counteract Clayton Powell's threat?

5. What does Clayton Powell threaten to do if King does not call off plans to picket the Democratic convention?

6. How does the governor of Montgomery react to students trying to get served at the state capitol building lunch counter?

7. How did Johns cause problems for the Dexter Avenue Church?

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

9. What does King begin to understand about his faith?

10. How did McCall fail the second sermon?

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