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7. You can conclude that
a. the Civil Rights Movement would have been more effective if they had used

violent resistance
b. many black people were not opposed to segregation
c. the laws passed during the Civil Rights Movement would have been
worthless without a federal government willing to enforce these laws
d. Rosa Parks rode the bus every day

8. Which of the following is an opinion?
a. Before the Civil Rights Movement whites and blacks were segregated in
America.

b. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus she was arrested.
c. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the first MIA leader.
d. none of the above

9. The main purpose of this passage is
a. to offer a brief description of the Civil Rights Movement in America
b. to give a brief biography of Rosa Parks

c. to argue against segregation
d. to argue for segregation

10. What does the phrase train of events mean?

a. a system of transportation that uses rails
b. a series of linked occurrences
c. a random series of events
d. none of the above

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

1. Immediately after the Civil War ended blacks were T F

treated the same as whites in America.

2. Martin Luther King Jr. was the first leader of the MIA. T F

3. The most significant decade of the Civil Rights T F

Movement was the 1960s.

4. The Montgomery bus boycott was unsuccessful. T F
5. During the 1950s most blacks were paid more than T F

most whites.

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