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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 children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

2. How tall was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) Six feet three inches.
(b) Six feet four inches.
(c) Five feet eleven inches.
(d) Five feet eight inches.

3. In front of which U.S. President did Martin Luther King, Jr. first speak about the "American Dream"?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Ford.

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

5. 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?
(a) Deborah Miller.
(b) Claudette Colvin.
(c) Margie Mathers.
(d) Trunda Blase.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?

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

3. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?

4. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

5. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?

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