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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. Who did King marry?
(a) Coretta.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Yolanda.
(d) Denise.

2. Where did King and his family move to?
(a) Selma.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Albany.
(d) Montgomery.

3. What was one of the demands that MIA made of the city?
(a) Buses should be reserved for blacks only.
(b) White passengers should have to stand when blacks were present.
(c) The bus company should hire black drivers too.
(d) The buses should be filled front to back for blacks.

4. The Crusade for Citizenship was focused on what?
(a) Voter registration.
(b) A civil rights bill.
(c) Bus desegregation.
(d) School desegregation.

5. Who took King's place as the president of MIA?
(a) Levison.
(b) Abernathy.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Baker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to the attention of the FBI at the Youth March for Integrated Schools?

2. In February 1959, King and his wife traveled to see sites made famous by whom?

3. Segregation on the city buses officially ended when?

4. Who filed a federal court case that would challenge bus segregation head-on?

5. Who was asked to vacate her seat on a city bus for a white passenger?

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