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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 11- Part 3: Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Common Threads.
(c) Renounced.
(d) Believe.

2. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(c) Newnan, Georgia.
(d) Mobile, Alabama.

3. What year was considered a momentous year in American history and in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1965.

4. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?
(a) NAACP and SCLC.
(b) MIA and BCA.
(c) SCLC and MIA.
(d) NAACP and BCA.

5. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work did Dr. King publish, according to Chapter 11 ("I Have A Dream"), when he was considered the "prophet of the hour"?

2. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?

3. In Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech, what does King say all Americans hold that is signed by the founders of the United States?

4. What Illinois city approved a plan that prevented the erection of an interracial housing development on December 21, 1959?

5. When did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) come into being?

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