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

Taylor Branch
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 109 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Final 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. Who did the government hire a hitman to kill?
(a) King
(b) Malcolm X
(c) Castro
(d) Khruschev

2. Whose house did King go to after a rally in Los Angeles?
(a) Frank Sinatra's
(b) Dean Martin's
(c) Sammy Davis'
(d) Burt Lancaster's

3. What does Kennedy want to register in the South?
(a) Children's votes
(b) White votes
(c) Female votes
(d) Negro votes

4. Where does King write his speech for the Washington march?
(a) A meadow
(b) The White House
(c) A church
(d) His hotel room

5. What does a restaurant owner set off in Sam Block's face?
(a) A fire extinguisher
(b) A nail bomb
(c) A fire hose
(d) A petrol bomb

6. What do Washington officials ban shops from selling before the march?
(a) Medicine
(b) Liquor
(c) Fireworks
(d) Guns

7. Who warns Moses to get out of the county?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Robert Kennedy
(c) The mayor
(d) The sheriff

8. What is Slater King's job?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Builder
(c) Judge
(d) Policeman

9. Who do demonstrators kill outside the Lyceum?
(a) Meredith
(b) An FBI agent
(c) A Federal marshall
(d) A reporter

10. What does a monitor gun combine the power of?
(a) Tear gas and laughing gas
(b) Mustard gas and two hoses
(c) Three hoses
(d) Mustard gas and laughing gas

11. What position does Jackson remove King from?
(a) Preacher at the Dexter Church
(b) President of the SNCC
(c) Vice President of the Sunday School Board
(d) Vice President of NAACP

12. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?
(a) Easter Sunday
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) New Year's Day
(d) Independence Day

13. Where is Seigenthaler when Kennedy calls him?
(a) Hospital
(b) Work
(c) Jail
(d) Church

14. Which writer does Robert Kennedy enlist the help of?
(a) James Ellroy
(b) Richard Wright
(c) Leonard Cohen
(d) James Baldwin

15. What does A New Orleans newspaper accuse O'Dell of being a member of?
(a) The Nazi party
(b) The KKK
(c) The Communist party
(d) The BNP

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the police bring out when they decided the hoses were not enough?

2. What is Moses struggling to find in this chapter?

3. What is C.B King's job?

4. Where does Anderson call a meeting for Albany Movement supporters?

5. Whose phone does Hoover bug in this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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