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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Johns like to talk about in his sermons?
(a) Racial discrimination
(b) Baseball
(c) World War II
(d) Africa

2. What was Williams' father's job?
(a) Shopkeeper
(b) Cook
(c) Reverend
(d) Coal miner

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?

2. In whose yard does a bomb explode in this chapter?

3. In which government building does King meet Nixon?

4. What did Martin Luther King initially intend to train for?

5. What member of Farmer's family dies in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does King's Civil Rights work affect his preaching?

2. How did the movie theaters in Nashville react to people protesting outside?

3. How does Belafonte prove a good running mate for Kennedy?

4. How does King disappoint his father in this chapter?

5. Why is Robert Kennedy furious that his brother contacts Coretta King?

6. How do sit-ins start to become popular across the country?

7. How did the city taxi drivers try to help out the local Negroes?

8. How did Reverend Williams benefit from the education provided at Morehouse College?

9. What were the differences between the First Baptist Church and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

10. Why did the girl decide not to take the bus company to the courts?

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