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

Taylor Branch
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 109 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 judge charge the sheriff with?
(a) Perjury
(b) Drug possession
(c) Breach of peace
(d) Assault

2. What does the SNCC organize a fundraiser to buy?
(a) Cigarettes
(b) Coffee
(c) Clothes
(d) Food

3. What does Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?
(a) Take trains
(b) Carry guns
(c) Stop
(d) Sing the national anthem

4. 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

5. Where does Kennedy's administration think Levison is from?
(a) Russia
(b) Vietnam
(c) Cuba
(d) Britain

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does King claim sanctioned segregation?

2. What does the registrar do to John Hardy?

3. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?

4. Why did Hoover and Kennedy never get along?

5. What does King ask people to do for those Negroes who have yet to learn the non-violent ways?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Megdar Evans try to implement in Jackson, Mississippi?

2. Why did King write letters from the Birmingham Jail?

3. How does Kennedy create the Voter Education Project?

4. How did Megdar Evans die?

5. How does the city respond to the Albany Movement's manifesto?

6. How does Hoover keep an eye on King in this chapter?

7. How does Jesse Jackson cause problems for King after he wins the National Baptist elections?

8. How do Birmingham's white businessmen respond to the riots?

9. What deal does King make with Robert Kennedy in this chapter?

10. What does the New Orleans article accuse O'Dell of?

(see the answer keys)

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