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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were Dr. and Mrs. King guests of during their stay in India?
(a) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
(b) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
(c) Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
(d) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

2. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?
(a) 500.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 1,000.

3. What is the date noted at the beginning of Chapter 4, "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools"?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1955.

4. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?
(a) Prince Edward County.
(b) Salem County.
(c) Franklin County.
(d) Bedford County.

5. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Newnan, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?

2. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?

3. What Democratic presidential candidate was running against Richard Nixon in 1960?

4. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?

5. What is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?

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