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

2. In a paper submitted at Crozer Seminary, King indicated he had nearly despaired over _______'s power to resolve social problems.
(a) Faith.
(b) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Hope.

3. Civil rights leaders focused on Selma, Alabama, in 1965 as 15,000 blacks were eligible to vote there, but only how many were registered?
(a) 275.
(b) 350.
(c) 200.
(d) 425.

4. It was primarily under Edgar S. Brightman and L. Harold DeWolf that King studied what?
(a) Calvinistic philosophy.
(b) Christian theology.
(c) Socialistic philosophy.
(d) Personalistic philosophy.

5. King noted that the 1964 election afforded the civil rights, labor, religious, and intellectual leaders alliance what within a year?
(a) Their third major victory.
(b) Their first major victory.
(c) Their second major victory.
(d) Their fourth major victory.

Short Answer Questions

1. King attended the midnight ceremony that marked the independence of which nation on 6 March 1957?

2. Which social philosopher did King stipulate left an indelible imprint on his thinking?

3. Widespread racial violence between 11-15 August 1965 in Los Angeles, California, resulted in how many deaths?

4. What were among the false rumors spread about King?

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

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