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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. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

2. Complete the following statement made by King: "Men often __________ each other because they _________ each other".
(a) Love / care about.
(b) Despise / do not know.
(c) Attack / fear.
(d) Hate / fear.

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

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

5. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?
(a) The Man.
(b) The prophet.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The dreamer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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