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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 was James Farmer's position with CORE?
(a) Vice President.
(b) Account Manager.
(c) National Director.
(d) Regional Supervisor.

2. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?
(a) December 5, 1955.
(b) October 25, 1955.
(c) December 5, 1957.
(d) October 25, 1958.

3. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) Participating in a conference for racial equality.
(b) Eating with a white man at a "White Only" diner.
(c) Riding on an interstate bus with other activists.
(d) Participating in civil rights demonstrations.

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

5. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?
(a) Central High School.
(b) Wesclin High School.
(c) Centralia West High School.
(d) Triad High School.

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 did the head of the Nation of Islam call upon African Americans to form a state of their own?

3. Who was the cause of Dr. King's injury on September 20, 1958?

4. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr., attend school to obtain his Bachelor of Divinity degree?

5. What did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?

(see the answer key)

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