Newsela: Martin Luther King Jr. Quiz

Newsela: Martin Luther King Jr. Quiz

Assessment

Passage

History

12th Grade

Hard

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What year was Martin Luther King Jr. born?

1928

1929

1930

1931

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. attend college?

Harvard University

Yale University

Morehouse College

Stanford University

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help found in 1957?

NAACP

SCLC

SNCC

CORE

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What event drew more than 200,000 people and is where King made his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech?

March on Washington

Selma to Montgomery March

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Birmingham Campaign

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

1962

1965

1963

1964

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

Montgomery, Alabama

Memphis, Tennessee

Atlanta, Georgia

Birmingham, Alabama

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.?

Lee Harvey Oswald

John Wilkes Booth

Sirhan Sirhan

James Earl Ray

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