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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do organizers call the march on Washington?

2. What does a newspaper assign their reporter Tom Johnson to find out?

3. Where do students march to in Nashville?

4. Which of the following people does King not choose as an advisor?

5. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Mike King improve himself so he could date Alberta Williams?

3. Describe how the Dialectical Society King starts at Boston College.

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

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

6. Why is the phone call Robert Kennedy makes to a judge potentially dangerous to his career?

7. What dilemma did King's relationship with Betty pose?

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

9. How do the police try to stop the carpool drivers?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why have the police been accused of racism in the past? Have the police shown a similar attitude to poor people and minorities in general or has their attitude been particularly bad towards the blacks? How have the police force tried to combat racism?

Essay Topic 2

Why was it the right time to boycott the buses? How did the black community spread the word that they were boycotting the buses? How did the media respond to the bus boycott?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the famous people Branch depicts in the book and examine his or her impact on the Civil Rights Movement.

1) What were his or her beliefs?

2) How did he or she communicate his or her beliefs to the public?

3) What impact did he or she have on the Civil Rights movement?

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