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

2. Who was discovered to have been sent to Montgomery by a New York organization?
(a) Rustin.
(b) King.
(c) Gray.
(d) Parks.

3. Who called the judge on the trial and suggested that King had a right to bond while waiting his appeal?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Coretta King.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

5. The bus boycott took away what percentage of bus riders?
(a) 50 percent..
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 70 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of what church?

3. What organization removed King from office?

4. What magazine did King's picture appear on in 1957?

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

(see the answer key)

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