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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 16- Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose administration war policies did Dr. King attack when he delivered his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?
(a) Eisenhower's.
(b) Johnson's.
(c) Kennedy's.
(d) Nixon's.

2. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?
(a) Ernest Green.
(b) Mack Parker.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.

3. What must people of oppression accumulate to realize deliverance?
(a) The consciousness of a problem.
(b) The right to enforce change.
(c) The power to enforce change.
(d) The heart to want change.

4. In what magazine did Dr. King's famous series "How My Mind Has Changed" appear?
(a) Christian Century.
(b) Relevant.
(c) Guideposts.
(d) CCM.

5. When did Dr. King celebrate his thirty-first (31) birthday?
(a) January 15, 1960.
(b) July 15, 1960.
(c) October 15, 1960.
(d) March 15, 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Dr. King write the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

2. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?

3. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

4. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?

5. Who claimed that the victims of the American military were often people of color?

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