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

2. What kind of testing was banned on February 4, 1965, used to deny rights to vote?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Driving.

3. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the powerless never experience?
(a) Life.
(b) Commonality.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Strength.

4. Who published Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
(a) Viacom Inc.
(b) Harper and Row.
(c) Random House.
(d) Harper Collins.

5. What quote from a civil rights hymn did President Johnson quote before a joint session of Congress in 1965?
(a) "We shall overcome!"
(b) "Oh freedom!"
(c) "We shall not be moved!"
(d) "Keep your eyes on the prize!"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?

3. How many students were expelled on March 2, 1960, by the Alabama Board of Education?

4. What was the date that Dr. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech?

5. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

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