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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. How many federal marshals were dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) 400.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 600.

2. How long did it take for Dr. King's address to students at Berkeley (1957) to be published?
(a) One month.
(b) One week.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

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

4. What did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?
(a) Self-Determination for Activists Commission.
(b) Equality for All Commission.
(c) Anti-Racial Commission.
(d) U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

5. What was found on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964?
(a) Anti-equality propaganda in the form of a barn painting.
(b) A lynched black man.
(c) An unfinished speech written by Dr. King.
(d) Three dead bodies of civil rights workers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what magazine did Dr. King's famous series "How My Mind Has Changed" appear?

4. How old was Martin Luther King, Jr., when Gandhi was assassinated?

5. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?

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