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

2. What is the name of the club King organizes at Boston?
(a) The Philosophical Club
(b) The Religious Club
(c) The Freedom Club
(d) The Communist Club

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

4. What kind of people did the Dexter Avenue Church attract?
(a) Uneducated people
(b) Highly intelligent people
(c) Poor people
(d) Angry people

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

6. What was the name of the preacher who caused a scandal in 1946?
(a) Vernon Johns
(b) Samuel Kitten
(c) Davis Love
(d) Mike King

7. What kind of army does King build?
(a) A violent army
(b) A terrorist army
(c) A non-violent army
(d) A guerilla army

8. What do organizers call the march on Washington?
(a) Prayer Pilgrimage
(b) Freedom March
(c) March of the Kings
(d) Revolution Road

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

10. What was Coretta Scott hoping to become after college?
(a) A song writer
(b) A housewife
(c) A classical singer
(d) An actress

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

12. Who does Powell say he will claim King is having an affair with?
(a) Rustin
(b) Malcolm X
(c) Levin
(d) Kennedy

13. Where did King's friend organize a similar boycott?
(a) Memphis
(b) Jackson
(c) Chapeau Rouge
(d) Baton Rogue

14. What is King asked to write a book about?
(a) Ghana
(b) The Montgomery Bus Boycott
(c) The Old Testament
(d) His life

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crozier Theological Seminary have in its basement rec room?

2. What did James B. Pritchard teach?

3. What do both candidates think will be the major issue in their presidential campaign?

4. What did the manager turn on with Lewis and Bevel locked inside the restaurant?

5. What does King tell everyone to avoid as Christmas approaches?

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