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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. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?
(a) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
(b) Mack Parker.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Ernest Green.

2. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) Eating with a white man at a "White Only" diner.
(b) Riding on an interstate bus with other activists.
(c) Participating in civil rights demonstrations.
(d) Participating in a conference for racial equality.

3. What became a pseudonym for the Civil Rights Movement?
(a) Call to Voice.
(b) All Are Equal.
(c) Free for All Persons.
(d) Freedom Movement.

4. What was the date of James Farmer's trip from Washington, D.C., to the South?
(a) May 4, 1958.
(b) May 4, 1955.
(c) May 4, 1968.
(d) May 4, 1961.

5. What position did Dr. King, while thirty-one, accept at a Baptist church?
(a) Co-pastor.
(b) Youth pastor.
(c) Deacon.
(d) Pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. King attend college during his undergraduate studies?

2. Why did Dr. King submit his resignation as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

4. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?

5. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

(see the answer key)

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