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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King indicated that what the world needed was a group of women and men willing to do what?
(a) Stand up for right, oppose wrong.
(b) Teach socialism, reject communism.
(c) Promote peace, oppose conflict.
(d) Preach moral spirituality, denounce sin.

2. After being convicted for failing to obey a police officer, who paid King's fine on 4 September 1958?
(a) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(b) Montgomery's Police Commissioner.
(c) The police officer he disobeyed.
(d) The SCLC.

3. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?
(a) $100 or 30 days confinement.
(b) $500 or 386 days confinement.
(c) $250 or 90 days confinement.
(d) $500 or 365 days confinement.

4. What factors regarding King's parents' marriage had a great impact on his religious attitudes?
(a) They read the Bible aloud daily.
(b) They did not argue or have a great falling out.
(c) They held a family prayer circle daily.
(d) They were active in their church.

5. King called Reverend Theodore Jemison for assistance as he had previously led a bus boycott where?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Birmingham, Alabama.
(d) Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

6. The sit-in movement began in a lunch counter in what location?
(a) Birmingham, Alabama.
(b) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(c) Jackson, Mississippi.
(d) Albany, Georgia.

7. What was it King's college training did, especially during his first two years?
(a) Reinforced many beliefs that he had.
(b) Brought many doubts to his mind.
(c) Erased many doubts from his mind.
(d) Brought some doubts, mostly answers to his mind.

8. When was Rosa Parks arrested?
(a) 26 November 1955.
(b) 6 December 1955.
(c) 20 November 1955.
(d) 1 December 1955.

9. King believed that, in order to advance forward, man had to step back and find what God?
(a) "Of social justice and the God that will last through the ages."
(b) "Of the universe and the God that will last through the ages."
(c) "Of social equality and the God that will last through the ages."
(d) "Of universal freedom and the God that will last through the ages."

10. In addition to King, how many people were indicted in Montgomery on antiboycott charges in February, 1956?
(a) About 50.
(b) Over 100.
(c) About 25.
(d) About 75.

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

12. What impressed King more than anything else on 6 March 1957?
(a) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their prison garb.
(b) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their crowns.
(c) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their tuxedos.
(d) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their native garb.

13. King said the birth of this new African nation renewed his conviction in what?
(a) "The ultimate triumph of justice."
(b) "The ultimate triumph of faith."
(c) "The ultimate triumph of hope."
(d) "The ultimate triumph of resolution."

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

15. How was King attacked in Harlem in 1958?
(a) He was beaten.
(b) He was stabbed.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was run over.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shackles did King describe as being removed from his body during his first two college years?

2. What were among the false rumors spread about King?

3. When did King enter Boston University's School of Theology?

4. When was King elected head of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)?

5. King stipulated he would not place his ultimate faith in little gods that could be destroyed when?

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