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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Meredith March, 'Black Power', and the Chicago Open-Housing Protests, 1966.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organizations did the students form out of the lunch counter sit-ins?
(a) Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(b) National Youths Against Racism.
(c) Crusade for Citizenship.
(d) Hands Across America.

2. King taped the list of demands to a door where?
(a) A White Church.
(b) Police Headquarters.
(c) Public Library.
(d) City Hall.

3. In which city did the marchers first encounter hostility?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Argon Springs.
(d) Greenwood.

4. What caused King to fall into a depression?
(a) The violence in Birmingham.
(b) Evers' assassination.
(c) Kennedy's assassination.
(d) The lack of progress in Albany.

5. King announced planned protests outside of what political event(s)?
(a) Presidential elections.
(b) Presidential Inauguration.
(c) State dinner.
(d) Republican and Democratic Conventions.

Short Answer Questions

1. King felt that "black power" had what implication?

2. In St. Augustine, rumors arose that the sheriff was a part of what group?

3. In St. Augustine, King was arrested for what?

4. The bus trip from Washington to New Orleans by an integrated group of students was known as what?

5. On February 1, 1960, how many students staged a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro?

(see the answer key)

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