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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Making of a Dreamer (1929-55).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?
(a) Promise and freedom.
(b) The American Dream and The American Nightmare.
(c) Integrationism and nationalism.
(d) Hope and vitality.

2. What church was King's father a minister of?
(a) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(b) South Central Baptist Church.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) Montgomery First Baptist Church.

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1946.

4. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1850.

5. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?
(a) Robert Zellner.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Charlie Rose.
(d) Bruce Klunder.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the NAACP founded?

2. Who was the author and civil rights activist that spoke of "twoness"?

3. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?

4. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?

5. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first and only time in their lives?

(see the answer key)

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