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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Making of a Dreamer (1929-55).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

2. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Richard Alen.

3. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?
(a) Integrationism and nationalism.
(b) The American Dream and The American Nightmare.
(c) Promise and freedom.
(d) Hope and vitality.

4. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?
(a) Peter.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Galations.
(d) Matthew.

5. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
(a) Charlie Rose.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Dexter Probst.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "Autobiography of Religious Development" sermon?

2. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?

3. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?

4. What church was King's father a minister of?

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

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