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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. What was it King's college training did, especially during his first two years?
(a) Brought many doubts to his mind.
(b) Brought some doubts, mostly answers to his mind.
(c) Reinforced many beliefs that he had.
(d) Erased many doubts from his mind.

2. After being convicted for failing to obey a police officer, who paid King's fine on 4 September 1958?
(a) The police officer he disobeyed.
(b) The SCLC.
(c) Montgomery's Police Commissioner.
(d) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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

4. King and Abernathy were convicted on 10 July 1962 of leading the Albany protest and began serving __________.
(a) A 30-day sentence.
(b) A 120-day sentence.
(c) A 45-day sentence.
(d) A 90-day sentence.

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare segregation laws unconstitutional?
(a) September, 1956.
(b) October, 1956.
(c) December, 1956.
(d) November, 1956.

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. White youths murdered a black boy who rode his bicycle while on the same day, a black girl was killed on the streets by whom?

3. King indicated that what the world needed was a group of women and men willing to do what?

4. King called Reverend Theodore Jemison for assistance as he had previously led a bus boycott where?

5. King described his father as having been what?

(see the answer key)

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