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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. Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, what were African Americans still denied in some parts of the South?
(a) Holding government office.
(b) Attending school.
(c) Owning businesses.
(d) Voting.

2. What year was considered a momentous year in American history and in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1963.

3. What was the name of the 37-year-old NAACP field secretary murdered on his front porch on June 12, 1963?
(a) Medgar Evans.
(b) William Pickens.
(c) Robert Bagnall.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

5. What was found on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964?
(a) Three dead bodies of civil rights workers.
(b) Anti-equality propaganda in the form of a barn painting.
(c) An unfinished speech written by Dr. King.
(d) A lynched black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demonstration was held at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?

2. Who published Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

3. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?

4. What kind of testing was banned on February 4, 1965, used to deny rights to vote?

5. Who began to question President Eisenhower's commitment to more troops in Vietnam?

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