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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two organizations invited Dr. King to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on June 4, 1957?
(a) NUL.
(b) YMCA and YWCA.
(c) MIA.
(d) NAACP.

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

3. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Chattanooga.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Jackson.

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

5. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?
(a) "Are you crazy?"
(b) "Is this your book?"
(c) "Are you Martin Luther King?"
(d) "Are you responsible for all this civil rights nonsense?"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?

4. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

5. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?

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