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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 8- Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To resist Jim Crow laws.
(b) To form anti-government organizations.
(c) To form violent organizations legally.
(d) To make people angry.

3. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 2,500.

4. What major movement followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Sit-In Movement?
(a) Freedom Summer.
(b) Black Panther Movement.
(c) Freedom Ride.
(d) March on Washington.

5. On what date did the head of the Nation of Islam call upon African Americans to form a state of their own?
(a) July 4, 1960.
(b) December 5, 1960.
(c) January 1, 1960.
(d) July 31, 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who went with Dr. and Mrs. King to India during their stay from February 2 to March 10, 1959?

2. What president announced the use of federal troops to escort nine children to high school in Arkansas?

3. How old was Martin Luther King, Jr., when Gandhi was assassinated?

4. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?

5. When did Dr. King write the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

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