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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: I See a Nightmare (1952-63).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What need did King address in his speech, "Prayer Pilgrimage"?
(a) The need for equlity.
(b) The need for courage.
(c) The need for power.
(d) The need for leadership.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?

2. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?

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

4. According to Cone, who was the only person to point out the "past and current injustices of American society in relation to its inhabitants of African descent"?

5. In what year was school segregation declared unconstitutional?

(see the answer key)

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