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8 Community January 15, 2022 Rediscovering America: A Quiz for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 1. King became pastor of which 4. After which civil rights victory 8. Which other civil rights leader Georgia church in 1960? did King become a recognized nation- did King work closely with before his al leader of the civil rights movement? death? A. Wheat Street Baptist Church B. Milestone Baptist Church A. Civil Rights Act of 1964 A. Ralph Abernathy B. Montgomery Bus Boycott B. Jesse Jackson C. Ebenezer Baptist Church C. Birmingham Campaign of 1963 D. Zion Baptist Church C. Benjamin Mays D. School integration in Little Rock D. All of the above 2. Which leader inspired King’s be- 5. In what city in 1968 was King as- lief in “nonviolent resistance” and, 9. What was the name of the speech sassinated? according to King, provided “the King gave the day before his assassi- method for social reform that I had A. Memphis, Tenn. nation? been seeking”? B. Jackson, Miss. C. Little Rock, Ark. A. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” A. Nelson Mandela D. Selma, Ala. B. “The Three Evils of Society” B. Dalai Lama C. “Our God Is Marching On” C. Eleanor Roosevelt 6. Before his famous “I Have a D. “The Other America” D. Mahatma Gandhi Dream” speech, King gave another speech from the Lincoln Memorial. 10. Which president signed legisla- What was the topic of that speech? tion designating Martin Luther King 3. King said in an interview that if he were marooned on a desert island Jr. Day as a federal holiday? By Peter C. Myers ator with certain unalienable A. Vietnam War with only one book other than the Bi- InsideSources.com Rights, that among these are B. Importance of nonviolence ble, he would choose what book? A. Barack Obama Life, Liberty and the pursuit C. Economic equality B. Jimmy Carter January 17 is Martin Lu- of Happiness.” D. African American voting rights ther King Jr. Day. On this A. Plato’s The Republic C. Ronald Reagan holiday, we celebrate one of The quiz below, from the B. John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty 7. In 1964, King received what im- D. George Bush the great civil rights leaders Ashbrook Center at Ashland C. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays by RW portant award? of the 20th century. The Rev. University, provides an op- Emerson Answers at bottom of page. King challenged Americans portunity for you to test your D. James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native A. United Nations Human Rights Award to uphold the Declaration of knowledge of King and his ef- Son B. Nobel Peace Prize Independence’s promise “that forts to further civil rights in C. Presidential Medal of Freedom all men are created equal, that America. D. 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