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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country does Betty's family come from?
(a) France
(b) Britain
(c) Romania
(d) Germany

3. What did the Dexter Avenue Church find it difficult to find?
(a) Funding
(b) A congregation
(c) Suitable preachers
(d) A church

4. What do organizers name the boycott organization?
(a) FCI
(b) MIA
(c) NGG
(d) PTT

5. Who does Nixon choose as his running mate?
(a) Lyndon Johnson
(b) Gerald Ford
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge
(d) Henry Kissinger

6. Who is the Democratic candidate in the 1960 presidential election?
(a) Jackie Robinson
(b) John Kennedy
(c) James Elroy
(d) Robert Kennedy

7. What does King associate pool tables with?
(a) Racism
(b) White people
(c) Rich people
(d) Low behavior

8. Where do students march to in Nashville?
(a) The main train station
(b) The city hall
(c) The main bus depot
(d) The city clock

9. What was Levison's job?
(a) Factory manager
(b) Doctor
(c) Coal miner
(d) Lawyer

10. What is the title of Niebuhr's book that King reads in this chapter?
(a) Passions of an Everday Man
(b) Non-violence and Revolution
(c) Moral Man and Immoral Society
(d) Looting the World

11. Who takes over the running of the carpool?
(a) Bob Moses
(b) Jack O'Dell
(c) Rufus Lewis
(d) Vernon Johns

12. What did a group of Negroes form in 1877?
(a) SNCC
(b) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(c) Black Power
(d) Maryland Baptist Group

13. What did a group of Negroes form in 1867?
(a) SNCC
(b) The First Baptist Church of Montgomery
(c) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(d) The first Baptist Church

14. In what state do the Freedom Riders encounter their first problems?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Noth Carolina
(c) South Carolina
(d) Georgia

15. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?
(a) Marx
(b) Kafka
(c) Nietzsche
(d) Gandhi

Short Answer Questions

1. What driving offense do the police arrest King for?

2. What did King have to work on as well as working on church business?

3. Who does Robert Kennedy telephone in this chapter?

4. What university did Du Bois work at?

5. What does King's speech stress the importance of?

(see the answer keys)

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