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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27: Watts, Chapter 28: Chicago Campaign.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Malcolm X assassinated on 21 February 1965?
(a) In Harlem, New York City.
(b) In Washington, Distict of Columbia.
(c) In Birmingham, Alabama.
(d) In Atlanta, Georgia.

2. When did King and other civil rights leaders meet with Eisenhower?
(a) 23 June 1958.
(b) 23 June 1957.
(c) 23 August 1957.
(d) 23 August 1958.

3. An integrated dinner on 27 January 1965 that honored King was held where?
(a) In Atlanta.
(b) In New York.
(c) In St. Augustine.
(d) In Birmingham.

4. What did the violence in Los Angeles achieve?
(a) The hardening of white resistance.
(b) An increase in white understanding.
(c) Heightened white compassion.
(d) The escalation of white empathy.

5. What custom did King follow every Sunday morning?
(a) 15 minutes of quiet meditation.
(b) 45 minutes of quiet meditation.
(c) An hour of quiet meditation.
(d) 30 minutes of quiet meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace was received by King, but whom did he feel truly deserved the award?

2. On 17 February 1960, King was charged with falsifying his Alabama income tax records for what years?

3. What was it King admired most about his father?

4. What was it King's college training did, especially during his first two years?

5. On what day was Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by Klan members as she drove marchers back from a 4-day march from Selma to Montgomery?

(see the answer key)

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