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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. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?
(a) DuBois.
(b) Ostrowski.
(c) Smythe.
(d) Mueller.

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

3. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?
(a) The Chronicle.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The Southern Reporter.
(d) The New Yorker.

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

5. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife?

2. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first and only time in their lives?

3. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?

4. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?

5. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?

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