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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. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?
(a) Pilgrims.
(b) The English.
(c) The French.
(d) Indians.

2. What church was King's father a minister of?
(a) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(b) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(c) South Central Baptist Church.
(d) First Baptist Church.

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

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

5. Who was the author and civil rights activist that spoke of "twoness"?
(a) Dorothy Height.
(b) James Meredith.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) John O. Killens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

2. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?

3. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?

4. Complete the following statement made by King: "Men often __________ each other because they _________ each other".

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

(see the answer key)

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