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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) Riding on an interstate bus with other activists.
(b) Participating in a conference for racial equality.
(c) Participating in civil rights demonstrations.
(d) Eating with a white man at a "White Only" diner.

2. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(b) Charles K. Steele.
(c) Stokeley Carmichael.
(d) Ernest Green.

3. What were the dates of the demonstration at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?
(a) December 5 and 7, 1961.
(b) August 5 and 9, 1961.
(c) July 9 and 16, 1961.
(d) June 5 and 7, 1961.

4. Dr. King wanted to make sure that advocates of Black Consciousness did not associate racial pride with what?
(a) Racial discrimination.
(b) Racial isolationism.
(c) Racial neglect.
(d) Racial stereotypes.

5. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?
(a) Uncle Tom.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Minority Travel Limitations.
(d) White Flight.

6. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?
(a) Central High School.
(b) Centralia West High School.
(c) Wesclin High School.
(d) Triad High School.

7. What staff member from the SCLC helped young people from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to think for themselves?
(a) Mrs. Ella Baker.
(b) Mr. Jonathon Brown.
(c) Mr. Terrance Minders.
(d) Ms. Ella Fitzgerald.

8. When did the Montgomery Bus boycott begin?
(a) October 1, 1955.
(b) December 1, 1965.
(c) October 1, 1965.
(d) December 5, 1955.

9. When was the second march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?
(a) December 5, 1956.
(b) April 18, 1959.
(c) December 5, 1958.
(d) April 18, 1958.

10. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) June.
(d) April.

11. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?
(a) Refusal to move.
(b) Call to removal of ignorance.
(c) Sit-ins.
(d) Testing the system.

12. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?
(a) August 17, 1955.
(b) October 17, 1959.
(c) May 17, 1957.
(d) September 17, 1956.

13. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?
(a) October 1, 1995.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) October 1, 1965.
(d) December 1, 1965.

14. When did Dr. King celebrate his thirty-first (31) birthday?
(a) July 15, 1960.
(b) January 15, 1960.
(c) October 15, 1960.
(d) March 15, 1960.

15. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) California.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Oklahoma City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

2. When did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) come into being?

3. What date did the Montgomery buses become integrated?

4. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?

5. What position did Dr. King, while thirty-one, accept at a Baptist church?

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