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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 8- Chapter 10.

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) Mrs. Ella Baker.
(b) Mr. Terrance Minders.
(c) Mr. Jonathon Brown.
(d) Ms. Ella Fitzgerald.

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

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

4. At some points, how did Dr. King help to keep the SCLC's cash flow problems from shutting down due to financial ruin?
(a) King sold personal possessions to keep the SCLC afloat.
(b) King asked for donations from wealthy people.
(c) King worked multiple jobs to keep the SCLC afloat.
(d) King put money from his speaking engagements into the SCLC.

5. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., ordained to the Christian ministry?
(a) First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
(b) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(c) Morningside Baptist Church.
(d) South Baptist Church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the university where the SNCC was began?

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

4. What were the dates of the demonstration at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?

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

(see the answer key)

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