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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. Who received a call from John F. Kennedy on 26 October 1960?
(a) Judge Oscar Mitchell.
(b) Coretta Scott King.
(c) Governor S. Ernest Vandiver.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

3. Who was the Governor of Arkansas when federal troops were called in to protect students at Central High School in Little Rock?
(a) Orval Tessier.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Dobie Gillis.
(d) Orval Faubus.

4. When did King and other civil rights leaders meet with Eisenhower?
(a) 23 August 1957.
(b) 23 August 1958.
(c) 23 June 1958.
(d) 23 June 1957.

5. When did King receive his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Seminary?
(a) 8 May 1950.
(b) 8 May 1951.
(c) 8 May 1952.
(d) 8 May 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impressed King more than anything else on 6 March 1957?

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

3. King received his doctorate in what major?

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

5. How was King informed that he had been unanimously called to the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it King believed had been shoved upon his generation?

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

3. What did King observe that Ghana symbolized?

4. What prompted King to make the comment during his initial conversation with Coretta that they should get married someday?

5. How did King view philosopher Walter Rauschenbusch?

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

7. Why was it King viewed previously inactive Albany, Georgia, as having become turbulent?

8. How did King view Reinhold Niebuhr?

9. How did King's behavior reflect upon his perceived stereotype whites typically had of blacks?

10. What was King's next step in his journey toward nonviolence following his studies at Crozer?

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