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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, The Fireman's Last Reprieve,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there a riot at the University of Alabama?
(a) The KKK bomb a classroom
(b) The University hires a Negro teacher
(c) A Negro woman tries to enroll
(d) Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech on campus

2. Where does King study for his doctorate?
(a) Boston College
(b) University of Virginia
(c) Chicago University
(d) New York University

3. What did a group of Negroes form in 1877?
(a) Black Power
(b) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(c) Maryland Baptist Group
(d) SNCC

4. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?
(a) Marx
(b) Gandhi
(c) Nietzsche
(d) Kafka

5. What did King have to work on as well as working on church business?
(a) A series of paintings
(b) His dissertation
(c) His autobiography
(d) A novel

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King initially intend to train for?

2. What does the police commissioner call the taxi drivers?

3. Where did King and Coretta marry?

4. What does King organize to help people get to work?

5. What kind of school is Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary?

(see the answer key)

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