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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 11- Part 3: Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the primary people who led the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians?
(a) African American men.
(b) African American college students.
(c) African American business-persons.
(d) African American women.

2. What church was bombed that led Dr. King to deliver a sermon at the funeral of the little girls killed during the bombing?
(a) First Baptist Church of Montgomery.
(b) 16th Street Baptist Church.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) Southern Baptist Church of Virginia.

3. How old was Martin Luther King, Jr., when Gandhi was assassinated?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 20.

4. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) California.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Oklahoma City.

5. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?
(a) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) T. McCants Stewart.
(c) Emmett Till.
(d) Stokely Carmichael.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?

3. According to Chapter 12:"Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," who was the great shaman of the Nation of Islam?

4. What became a pseudonym for the Civil Rights Movement?

5. What quote from a civil rights hymn did President Johnson quote before a joint session of Congress in 1965?

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