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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24: The Nobel Peace Prize, Chapter 25: Malcolm X, Chapter 26: Selma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who received a call from John F. Kennedy on 26 October 1960?
(a) Judge Oscar Mitchell.
(b) Governor S. Ernest Vandiver.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Coretta Scott King.

2. What happened when white police officers initially arrested King in Montgomery?
(a) They took him to jail where he was physically beaten.
(b) They took him to jail where segregation persisted.
(c) They took him to jail and refused to release him.
(d) They took him to jail and threatened to kil him.

3. King called Reverend Theodore Jemison for assistance as he had previously led a bus boycott where?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Birmingham, Alabama.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

4. Montgomery's Police Commissioner instructed taxi drivers not to do what during the bus boycott?
(a) Operate along bus routes.
(b) Give blacks discount fares.
(c) Give blacks rides.
(d) Give free rides.

5. Where did Coretta meet Malcolm X on 5 February 1965?
(a) In Montgomery, Alabama.
(b) In Selma, Alabama.
(c) In Marion, Alabama.
(d) In Huntsville, Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following a press conference at the U.S. Senate, when was the only encounter King had with Malcolm X?

2. King wanted to learn from what Scandinavian tradition?

3. City and bus officials felt the bus protest would pass quickly once what happened?

4. Although he and Malcolm X did not always see eye-to-eye as to methods, King stipulated Malcolm X had the great ability to do what?

5. What were among the false rumors spread about King?

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