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Martin Luther King Jr. Quiz Template

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Martin Luther King Jr. Quiz

Directions: Circle the letter next to the answer that completes each sentence.

When he finished his schooling, Martin Luther King Jr. worked as a __________.

a. medical doctor

b. high school teacher

c. Baptist minister

Martin Luther King Jr. was influenced by __________ , who worked for change

without violence.

a. Mohandas Gandhi

b. George Washington

c. Franklin Roosevelt

3. After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Martin

Luther King Jr. organized __________ .

a. an attack on the jail to free Rosa Parks

b. the March on Washington

c. the Montgomery Bus Boycott

4. Literacy tests and poll taxes made it hard for African Americans to __________.

a. go to white schools

b. vote

c. own property

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the founders of __________.

a. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b. the NAACP

c. Morehouse College

Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham in 1963 for __________ .

a. marching without permission

b. sitting at an all-white lunch counter

c. leading a Freedom Ride

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