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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?
(a) Testing the system.
(b) Sit-ins.
(c) Refusal to move.
(d) Call to removal of ignorance.

2. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?
(a) Franklin County.
(b) Prince Edward County.
(c) Salem County.
(d) Bedford County.

3. When did the Montgomery Bus boycott begin?
(a) December 5, 1955.
(b) December 1, 1965.
(c) October 1, 1955.
(d) October 1, 1965.

4. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) California.

5. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?
(a) Hattie Cotton Elementary School.
(b) Dr. King's home.
(c) The conference site for the MIA.
(d) Montgomery Bus Headquarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did participation by African American churches in American public life surge?

2. When was the second march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

3. With whom from the NAACP did Dr. King argue regarding non-violent movement against racism?

4. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?

5. What happened to Dr. King as he was signing books on September 20, 1958?

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