Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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 | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Taylor Branch
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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. Which of the following is a title of one of John's sermons?
(a) Down and Out and Almost Dead
(b) Blacks and White its All Alright
(c) It's Safe to Murder Negroes in Montgomery
(d) People are Born to Hate

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

3. What did the manager turn on with Lewis and Bevel locked inside the restaurant?
(a) The television
(b) The lights
(c) The fumigation machine
(d) The air conditioning

4. In what state do the Freedom Riders encounter their first problems?
(a) Noth Carolina
(b) Mississippi
(c) Georgia
(d) South Carolina

5. What church does Reverend A.D. Williams take over?
(a) Dexter
(b) Abraham
(c) Ebenezer
(d) Frederick Douglas

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the fare increase do little to help the bus company's financial problems?

2. Whose vote does Robert Kennedy worry his brother is losing?

3. What did a group of Negroes form in 1877?

4. What does King's speech stress the importance of?

5. Where does Bevel stage protests?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does King put into motion with the SCLC in Chapter 6?

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

3. How does King find the task of writing a book?

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

5. How does King meet Vice President Nixon?

6. How does King disappoint his father in this chapter?

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

8. How did McCall fail the second sermon?

9. How did Reverend Williams benefit from the education provided at Morehouse College?

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

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