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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Chicago and the 'War on Slums', 1965-1966.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the package delivered to the King home contain?
(a) Photos of King at a communist meeting.
(b) Recording from FBI wiretaps.
(c) A letter from King to Stalin.
(d) A bomb.

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

3. What did Connor use on the protesters?
(a) Police dogs.
(b) Tear gas.
(c) Stun guns.
(d) Machine guns.

4. In 1964, King learned that he had won what?
(a) The Booker T. Washington Award.
(b) The NAACP President.
(c) The lottery.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

5. Who paid King and Abernathy's fine?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) A group of students.
(c) A well-dressed black man.
(d) The mayor of Albany.

Short Answer Questions

1. SCLC employees were unhappy about what?

2. The Democratic Convention took place in which city?

3. The mayor of Chicago announced a plan to clean up what?

4. Where did King and his family move to?

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

(see the answer key)

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