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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. How did King meet Coretta?
(a) In the university's cafeteria.
(b) In a church just off campus.
(c) Through a mutual friend.
(d) In the university's library.

2. Where did angry whites attack a Civil Rights march in Chicago on 5 August 1967?
(a) In the Southeast side.
(b) In the Southwest side.
(c) In the Northeeast side.
(d) In the Northwest side.

3. King saw the rioting in Los Angeles as having arisen from what?
(a) From despair over poverty which was inextricably linked with racial justice.
(b) From disheartenment culminating in masses due to brutal police tactics.
(c) From the hopelessness felt by many regarding their economic destitution.
(d) From desperation many endure concerning race-related discrimination.

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

5. When was NAACP leader Medgar Evans assassinated?
(a) 12 March 1963.
(b) 12 April 1963.
(c) 12 May 1963.
(d) 12 June 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was a plot by a guerrilla group on King's life discovered during the summer of 1964?

2. King was arrested on 12 April 1963 for violation of an injunction against protesting by which Court?

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

4. An integrated dinner on 27 January 1965 that honored King was held where?

5. How was King informed that he had been unanimously called to the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

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