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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Birth of the SCLC, 1957-1959.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What SCLC program was to reach out more readily to the public?
(a) POV.
(b) Future Program.
(c) Crusade for Sponsors.
(d) Hands across America.

2. In February 1959, King and his wife traveled to see sites made famous by whom?
(a) Ghandi.
(b) Churchill.
(c) King Tut.
(d) Genghis Khan.

3. What was left on King's front porch in January, 1957?
(a) A lawsuit over the boycott.
(b) Dynamite.
(c) Hate mail.
(d) A dead rabbit.

4. King was stabbed while in which city?
(a) Selma.
(b) New York.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

5. Who was hired to oversee the Crusade for Citizenship rallies, but then let go because of rumors of his homosexuality and communist connections?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Bayard Rustin.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Rocco Siciliano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Segregation on the city buses officially ended when?

2. Who did King visit with in New York about the Washington Pilgrimage?

3. The first federal Civil Rights Act did what?

4. The Crusade for Citizenship was focused on what?

5. What happened to King at a book signing in New York?

(see the answer key)

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