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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 happened when white police officers initially arrested King in Montgomery?
(a) They took him to jail where segregation persisted.
(b) They took him to jail where he was physically beaten.
(c) They took him to jail and threatened to kil him.
(d) They took him to jail and refused to release him.

2. What particularly interested Coretta during the trip to India?
(a) Government, women, cuisine.
(b) Women, museums, cuisine.
(c) Museums, animals, schools.
(d) Women, history, government of India.

3. In the summer of 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planned a campaign to enforce what?
(a) Black employment rights.
(b) Black property rights.
(c) Black voting rights.
(d) Revocation of segregation laws.

4. On what date did King call for a Day of Penance to atone for an outbreak of racial violence in Albany?
(a) 30 July 1962.
(b) 25 July 1962.
(c) 20 July 1962.
(d) 4 August 1962.

5. How old was King when he participated in an oratorical contest in Dublin, Georgia?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 10 years old.
(c) 14 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. People arrived from how many other countries around the world to welcome this new nation in Africa?

2. King's collegiate studies made him increasingly skeptical as he could not reconcile what?

3. What primary dilemma did King and Coretta face when accepting the offer of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church rather than others in the North?

4. When did King and other civil rights leaders meet with Eisenhower?

5. King described which individual as his "closest associate and most trusted friend" from the start of the boycott?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King observe about love?

2. How did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe his being religious?

3. What hardships did King recall when he entered college?

4. How did King view Reinhold Niebuhr?

5. Why was Mrs. Rosa Parks arrested on 1 December 1955?

6. How did King conclude he dealt with the traumas he faced in 1958?

7. What did King note about the Great Depression?

8. King described the Montgomery Movement as what type of turning point?

9. How did King describe his wife?

10. How did King describe his meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon?

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