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Use this quiz to educate your students about the Civil Rights movement.  Answers are at the end of this article.

1. What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
a. 1960
b. 1963
c. 1968
d. 19732. Where did Rosa Parks become famous?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
b. At a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
c. On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
d. On a march in Selma, Alabama3. Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. Ronald Reagan 4. Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King holiday?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. Ronald Reagan5. What was the name of King's first book?
a. Stride Toward Freedom
b. Dreamer
c. Why We Can't Wait
d. We Shall Overcome 6. Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
b. At a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
c. On a bus in Birmingham, Alabama
d. On a march in Selma, Alabama 7. Where did King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
a. At Ebenezer Baptist Church
b. In front of the Atlanta City Hall
c. At the Lincoln Memorial
d. At the Nobel Prize ceremony 8. Who is the protagonist of a Charles Johnson novel?
a. The driver of a Birmingham bus
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. A bodyguard in Chicago
d. A sanitation worker in Memphis 9. What foreign figure has King been compared to?
a. Charles de Gaulle
b. Mohandas Gandhi
c. Albert Nobel
d. Nelson Mandela 10. What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?
a. 1969
b. 1973
c. 1980
d. 1986 11. What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?
a. James Meredith
b. Malcolm X
c. Medgar Evers
d. Stokely Carmichael12. Why was King arrested in 1956?
a. Protesting segregated department store facilities in Birmingham.
b. Driving too fast
c. Sitting in at a Woolworth's lunch counter.
d. Assaulting a police officer.
**Bonus Question: What are, according to Dr. King, the three Evils?Answers1) What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
c. 1968: He was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support a strike by sanitation workers.(2) Where did Rosa Parks become famous?
c. On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest December 1 lead to a year-long boycott aimed to desegregate the bus system.(3) Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?
b. Lyndon B. Johnson. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 that year.(4) Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King holiday?
d. Ronald Reagan. It was in November, 1983, more than 15 years after King was killed.(5) What was the name of King's first book?
a. Stride Toward Freedom. He was only 29 years old when it was published.(6) Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The 1960 protest was one of the key moments in the civil rights movement.(7) Where did King deliver his "I have a Dream" speech?
b. At the Lincoln Memorial. He addressed a quarter-million people who turned out for the 1963 March on Washington.(8) Who is the protagonist of the novel Charles Johnson is writing?
c. A bodyguard in Chicago. In the novel, Dreamer, this man was picked because of his resemblance to King.(9) What foreign figure has King been compared to ?
b. Mohandas Gandhi. King admired Gandhi greatly, and travelled to India in 1959.(10) What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?
c. 1986. The first legislation for the holiday had been proposed almost 18 years earlier.(11) What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?
d. Medgar Evers. The NAACP leader was murdered June 12, 1963.(12) Why was King arrested in 1956?
b. Driving too fast. (He was driving 30 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone.) That same year, in the very early days of the civil rights movement, his house was bombed.

Bonus Question: What are the three Evils?
Poverty, Racism and War