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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was King sentenced to jail for violating his probation?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 8 days.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 5 years.

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

3. What organization removed King from office?
(a) National Baptist Convention.
(b) SNCC.
(c) SCLC.
(d) NAACP.

4. Who advised King to distance himself from Levison?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Coretta Scott King.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

5. Who was murdered in his driveway on the night that Kennedy mobilized the Alabama National Guard?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Roy Wilkins.
(d) Ralph Abernathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organizations did the students form out of the lunch counter sit-ins?

2. The focus of the Birmingham protests was on what?

3. The SCLC teamed up with what organization to train students to teach citizenship schools?

4. The white merchants resisted what aim?

5. Which city was chosen for SCLC demonstrations because of its noncompliance to the Civil Rights Law of 1964?

(see the answer key)

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