Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political party is Levison a member of?
(a) KKK
(b) Repubilicans
(c) Labor
(d) Communist

2. Who is the governor of Arkansas?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) Jack Marshall
(c) James Formby
(d) Orval Faubus

3. What does King organize to help people get to work?
(a) A carpool
(b) A freedom bus
(c) Freedom trains
(d) Horse and carts

4. Who does Daddy King want Martin Luther King, Jr. to marry?
(a) Juanita Scott
(b) Winona Ryder
(c) Betty
(d) Coretta

5. What does Robinson's letter call to boycott?
(a) City buses
(b) Hotels
(c) Restaurants
(d) Cafes

6. What did Mike King's father do for a living?
(a) Sharecropper
(b) Shop keeper
(c) Soldier
(d) Reverend

7. Who has dinner with the Freedom Riders when they arrive in Atlanta?
(a) Mike King
(b) Martin Luther King
(c) Malcolm X
(d) Robert Kennedy

8. What does King study in his father's house in this chapter?
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Frederick Douglas
(d) Jan Hus

9. What do the police convict Rosa Parks of?
(a) Drinking in a public place
(b) Dealing drugs
(c) Promoting Communism
(d) Breaking segregation laws

10. What do the Alabama police charge King with?
(a) Murder
(b) Tax evasion
(c) Perjury
(d) Speeding

11. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?
(a) English
(b) French
(c) History
(d) Biology

12. What do both candidates think will be the major issue in their presidential campaign?
(a) Vietnam
(b) National debt
(c) Civil Rights
(d) Cuba

13. In whose yard does a bomb explode in this chapter?
(a) E.D. Nixon's
(b) Martin Luther King's
(c) Fred Grey's
(d) Rosa Parks'

14. What did Johns begin to sell on the streets?
(a) Clothes
(b) Fruits and vegetables
(c) Bibles
(d) Lemonade

15. In what state does Robert Kennedy make a speech in this chapter?
(a) Georgia
(b) South Carolina
(c) New York
(d) North Carolina

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King offer to Wyatt Tee Walker?

2. What does the Ku Klux Klan burn in front of John's lawn?

3. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?

4. Who does Kennedy select as his running mate?

5. What does the police commissioner call the taxi drivers?

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