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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. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1850.

2. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Eden.
(b) Heaven.
(c) White.
(d) Canaan.

3. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?
(a) Greenville.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Carolina.
(d) Montgomery.

4. What did Malcolm X claim that the "black masses living at the bottom of the social heap" were living?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A social lynching.
(c) An everlasting imprisonment.
(d) A dream.

5. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
(a) 217.
(b) 381.
(c) 198.
(d) 436.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?

2. What was King's favorite image used to show the importance of being the best in your profession?

3. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?

4. What Senator was declared as an open racist in Chapter 3?

5. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?

(see the answer key)

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