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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. When was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1967.

2. On what date did Malcolm X give the speech that began, "No, I'm not an American"?
(a) April 3, 1964.
(b) December 24, 1972.
(c) May 27, 1953.
(d) June 4, 1993.

3. 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) Margie Mathers.
(b) Deborah Miller.
(c) Claudette Colvin.
(d) Trunda Blase.

4. 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) Promise and freedom.
(b) Hope and vitality.
(c) Integrationism and nationalism.
(d) The American Dream and The American Nightmare.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

4. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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