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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. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?
(a) Stokeley Carmichael.
(b) Ernest Green.
(c) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(d) Charles K. Steele.

2. When did the President remove the National Guard troops from the high school in Arkansas?
(a) May 19, 1957.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) August 9, 1957.
(d) May 8, 1958.

3. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To form violent organizations legally.
(b) To make people angry.
(c) To form anti-government organizations.
(d) To resist Jim Crow laws.

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

5. What position did Dr. King, while thirty-one, accept at a Baptist church?
(a) Youth pastor.
(b) Deacon.
(c) Co-pastor.
(d) Pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?

2. With whom from the NAACP did Dr. King argue regarding non-violent movement against racism?

3. What is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?

4. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?

5. Where did Dr. King attend college during his undergraduate studies?

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