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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. What impressed King more than anything else on 6 March 1957?
(a) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their prison garb.
(b) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their tuxedos.
(c) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their native garb.
(d) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their crowns.

2. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., born?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Selma.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Montgomery.

3. What position did the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) take on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
(a) It fully supported it.
(b) It was not formed at this time.
(c) It took no stated position, only supported it financially.
(d) It refused to support it.

4. A dynamite blast killed how many young black girls in Sunday school at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

5. City and bus officials felt the bus protest would pass quickly once what happened?
(a) Initial interest diminished.
(b) The first rainy day arrived.
(c) Volunteers tired of transporting.
(d) Protestors grew weary of walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. King described his father as having been what?

2. What did the violence in Los Angeles achieve?

3. How did King receive a letter from eight clergy members from all major faiths while in jail?

4. President Kennedy announced a new civil rights proposal on 11 June 1963 and met with King when?

5. King and Abernathy were convicted on 10 July 1962 of leading the Albany protest and began serving __________.

(see the answer key)

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