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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Poor People's Campaign and Memphis, 1967-1968.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was hired to oversee the Crusade for Citizenship rallies, but then let go because of rumors of his homosexuality and communist connections?
(a) Bayard Rustin.
(b) Rocco Siciliano.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Ralph Abernathy.

2. Who approved several wiretaps on King's personal phone lines?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

3. How many girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

4. Who made a speech on the day before the march that upset the White House?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) John Lewis.
(c) Robert Williams.
(d) Fred Shuttlesworth.

5. How many people were arrested at the trial for the arrested SNCC train riders?
(a) 400.
(b) 50.
(c) 150.
(d) 5000.

Short Answer Questions

1. King denied that which group had helped plan the Memphis protests?

2. Who called the judge on the trial and suggested that King had a right to bond while waiting his appeal?

3. Robert Kennedy got a federal injunction against which group to keep them from harassing the bus riders?

4. King was stabbed while in which city?

5. Why did a riot break out?

(see the answer key)

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