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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, SNCC, the Kennedys, and the Freedom Rides, 1960-1961.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organizations did the students form out of the lunch counter sit-ins?
(a) Crusade for Citizenship.
(b) Hands Across America.
(c) National Youths Against Racism.
(d) Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.

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

3. The first federal Civil Rights Act did what?
(a) Dismissed all protest charges.
(b) Established a Civil Rights commission.
(c) Ended bus segregation only.
(d) Ended all segregation.

4. Who filed a federal court case that would challenge bus segregation head-on?
(a) Fred Gray.
(b) Robert Graetz.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. When King was pulled over while driving, what did he not have?
(a) Car insurance.
(b) A voter's registration card.
(c) Proof of Insurance.
(d) A Georgia driver's license.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organization was formed to oversee the boycott and legal maneuvering?

2. Why did the Freedom Riders feel disappointed in King?

3. Segregation on the city buses officially ended when?

4. Who was discovered to have been sent to Montgomery by a New York organization?

5. King became the assistant pastor at what church?

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