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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 16- Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Mack Parker.
(b) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
(c) Ernest Green.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

2. Dr. King reached out to his extensive religious contacts, including the National Baptist Convention, to organize what conference?
(a) Southern Religious Conference.
(b) Southern Baptist Conference.
(c) Montgomery Christian Conference.
(d) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

3. What war began to take precedence over the Civil Rights Movement given that military presence was needed?
(a) WW I.
(b) WW II.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

4. What does NUL stand for?
(a) Ninth Unity League.
(b) National Urban League.
(c) National Uniform League.
(d) Necessary Under Law.

5. What was the name of one of the first integrated group of interstate travelers that later served as Dr. King's chief strategists?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Bayard Rustin.
(c) Reverend Oliver Brown.
(d) Emmett Till.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

2. What Democratic presidential candidate was running against Richard Nixon in 1960?

3. What was the true goal of the Black Power Movement?

4. Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, what were African Americans still denied in some parts of the South?

5. Who published Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

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