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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 16- Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?
(a) Refusal to move.
(b) Testing the system.
(c) Sit-ins.
(d) Call to removal of ignorance.

2. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what is the "nettlesome task of Negros" today?
(a) How to tell their story.
(b) How to show their importance.
(c) How to organize their strength.
(d) How to prove that there is a need for change.

3. What staff member from the SCLC helped young people from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to think for themselves?
(a) Mr. Jonathon Brown.
(b) Mrs. Ella Baker.
(c) Mr. Terrance Minders.
(d) Ms. Ella Fitzgerald.

4. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what is the goal of a relationship with the government for African Americans?
(a) The government finding it unwise and prudent to collaborate with African Americans.
(b) To stop the unnecessary deaths of African Americans.
(c) To chastise the government into helping them.
(d) Having the government see African Americans as inarguably equal.

5. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the "powerful" never lose?
(a) Opportunities.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Chances.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined" discuss?

2. How many student demonstrators were arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 27, 1960?

3. How many people attended Dr. King's first anti-war demonstration?

4. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?

5. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?

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