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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: I Have a Dream (1955-64).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.

2. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1974.

3. At what age was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s first experience with segregation?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?
(a) Bruce Klunder.
(b) Charlie Rose.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Robert Zellner.

5. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) The Lincoln Memorial.
(b) The Washington Monument.
(c) The lawn of the White House.
(d) The Library of Congress.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was school segregation declared unconstitutional?

2. What was the South described as during the "antebellum" period?

3. Who gave Malcolm the name "Malcolm X"?

4. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

5. On what date did King make his first major speech to the nation?

(see the answer key)

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