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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: The Birmingham Campaign, Chapter 18: Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Montgomery's Police Commissioner instructed taxi drivers not to do what during the bus boycott?
(a) Operate along bus routes.
(b) Give free rides.
(c) Give blacks discount fares.
(d) Give blacks rides.

2. King described which individual as his "closest associate and most trusted friend" from the start of the boycott?
(a) Jack Crenshaw.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) E.D. Nixon.
(d) Roy Bennett.

3. When Albert Boutwell won a runoff election for mayor on 2 April 1963 against Birmingham Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, what did Connor do?
(a) Along with two other commissioners, he refused to leave office.
(b) He refused to leave his office, but other commissioners left.
(c) He left his office, but other commissioners refused to leave.
(d) Along with other commissioners, he refused to leave office.

4. King had been desirous of what for some years prior to his graduation from Crozer Seminary?
(a) Providing social assistance to the needy.
(b) Counseling youths in a squalid urban slum.
(c) Lecturing about his views around the nation.
(d) Teaching in a religious school, college.

5. Which social philosopher did King stipulate left an indelible imprint on his thinking?
(a) Walter Cronkite.
(b) Walter Raleigh.
(c) Walter Channing.
(d) Walter Rauschenbusch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?

2. On what date did King's attorney arrange his release from prison?

3. How did King respond to President Kennedy's having called Coretta over Easter weekend?

4. King was arrested and jailed on what date for speeding during the "Get Tough" campaign?

5. King believed preaching should come from the people's experiences, and specified that he must know what about those he pastored?

(see the answer key)

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