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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, The Fireman's Last Reprieve,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following countries does Mike King not visit on his trip abroad?
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Romania

2. What African country does King fly to?
(a) Zimbabwe
(b) Nigeria
(c) Zaire
(d) Ghana

3. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?
(a) They advertized the boycott
(b) They gave free rides
(c) They ran over police
(d) They lowered their fares

4. What does the city council approve in an attempt to improve the bus company's financial troubles?
(a) A fare increase
(b) Equality of seating
(c) Less buses
(d) Christmas shopping buses

5. What was Williams' father's job?
(a) Reverend
(b) Cook
(c) Shopkeeper
(d) Coal miner

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a group of Negroes form in 1867?

2. What does a newspaper assign their reporter Tom Johnson to find out?

3. Where is Seigenthaler when Kennedy calls him?

4. Where does Faubus fly to to talk to Eisenhower?

5. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?

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