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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: Death of Illusions, Chapter 22: St. Augustine, Chapter 23: The Mississippi Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did King receive a letter from eight clergy members from all major faiths while in jail?
(a) It arrived via a telegram.
(b) It arrived in the mail.
(c) It arrived via a postcard.
(d) It was advertised in a newspaper.

2. King called the bus company manager the day the order arrived and requested service be resumed the next day, and got what response?
(a) The manager hung up on him.
(b) Agreement with evident relief.
(c) An excuse that it would take a week.
(d) An excuse that it would take an uncertain length of time.

3. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?
(a) $500 or 365 days confinement.
(b) $500 or 386 days confinement.
(c) $250 or 90 days confinement.
(d) $100 or 30 days confinement.

4. King had been desirous of what for some years prior to his graduation from Crozer Seminary?
(a) Counseling youths in a squalid urban slum.
(b) Lecturing about his views around the nation.
(c) Teaching in a religious school, college.
(d) Providing social assistance to the needy.

5. How many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 2,400.
(c) 3,700.
(d) 9,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. A dynamite blast killed how many young black girls in Sunday school at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963?

2. Just prior to Brightman's death, King initiated his study of which philosopher with him?

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

4. How many civil rights workers were reported missing following their arrests in June, 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi?

5. King assessed the summer of 1963 when he noted it was what?

(see the answer key)

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