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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. Why did the Freedom Riders feel disappointed in King?
(a) He refused to go along with them, citing his probation problems.
(b) He failed to mention them in a speech in Washington DC.
(c) He spent some of the money they had planned on using.
(d) He did not want to serve on their advisory panel.

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

3. What happened on the night that the settlement with the city was reached?
(a) Abernathy was killed.
(b) An activist's home and a hotel were bombed.
(c) The White House told King to back off.
(d) The KKK arrived to protest.

4. What did King want the Kennedy Administration to issue?
(a) Reparations for slavery.
(b) A Second Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) An apology for Jim Crow.
(d) A segregation bill.

5. What was left on King's front porch in January, 1957?
(a) A dead rabbit.
(b) Dynamite.
(c) Hate mail.
(d) A lawsuit over the boycott.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. King was accused of what by the state of Alabama?

3. Why did a riot break out?

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

5. Who did King visit with in New York about the Washington Pilgrimage?

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