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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 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 crowns.
(c) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their tuxedos.
(d) When Nkrumah and others entered wearing their native garb.

2. Who received a call from John F. Kennedy on 26 October 1960?
(a) Judge Oscar Mitchell.
(b) Governor S. Ernest Vandiver.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Coretta Scott King.

3. King become head of what on 14 February 1957?
(a) Southern Leadership Committee.
(b) Southern Leadership Commission.
(c) Southern Leadership Conference.
(d) Southern Liberties Conference

4. In the summer of 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planned a campaign to enforce what?
(a) Black employment rights.
(b) Black voting rights.
(c) Black property rights.
(d) Revocation of segregation laws.

5. What happened when King's home was bombed?
(a) The Police Commissioner stated he brought the bombing on himself.
(b) The Kings sustained only minor injuries.
(c) King denied an offer of bodyguards for protection.
(d) King purchased a handgun for protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?

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

3. King spoke at the founding conference of what organization on 15 April 1960?

4. 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?

5. What particularly interested Coretta during the trip to India?

(see the answer key)

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