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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 was not included in the boycotts in Albany?
(a) Public transportation.
(b) Schools.
(c) Retail stores.
(d) The library.

2. What did people blame King for?
(a) Stealing money from SNCC.
(b) A lack of change in Albany.
(c) Being a communist.
(d) The failure of the Civil Rights Act.

3. Where did King and his family move to?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Albany.
(c) Selma.
(d) Montgomery.

4. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?
(a) A police officer beating a black child.
(b) Police dogs attacking a group of activists.
(c) The sheriff using a billyclub on an older black woman.
(d) The ruins of a bombed black church.

5. Who filed a federal court case that would challenge bus segregation head-on?
(a) Robert Graetz.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Fred Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Demonstrations began in which state to test the compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

2. Why was there an uproar in the Chicago press about King?

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

4. What did the NAACP tell its members?

5. In Selma, King was suffering from what?

(see the answer key)

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