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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Desegregation at Last, Chapter 10: The Expanding Struggle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King believed preaching should come from the people's experiences, and specified that he must know what about those he pastored?
(a) Their problems.
(b) Their fortuity.
(c) Their status.
(d) Their faith.

2. What did King describe as the age-old problem faced by his mother and all black parents in America?
(a) Explaining racial hatred to a small child.
(b) Explaining racial discrimination to a small child.
(c) Explaining segregation to a teenager.
(d) Explaining segregation, discrimination to a small child.

3. When did King enter Crozer Theological Seminary?
(a) 14 September 1948.
(b) 14 September 1947.
(c) 14 September 1949.
(d) 14 September 1950.

4. In his own life and one of a person who sought to be strong, what was it King advised needed to be combined in one's character?
(a) "Antitheses strongly marked."
(b) "Idealism and realism."
(c) "Syntheses strongly connected."
(d) "Trust and doubt."

5. King viewed preaching as the dual process of what?
(a) Changing individuals' social status, the environment.
(b) Changing individuals' religious views, societies.
(c) Changing individuals' souls, societies.
(d) Changing individuals' faith, societies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., born?

2. Coretta inherited a talent for what from her mother?

3. King received his bachelor of arts degree from Morehouse College in what major?

4. When did a Montgomery Grand Jury indict King and others on an antiboycott law?

5. Through studying the Bible in college, King stated he "came to see that behind the legends and myths of the Book were many ______."

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