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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 was one of the demands that MIA made of the city?
(a) Buses should be reserved for blacks only.
(b) The buses should be filled front to back for blacks.
(c) White passengers should have to stand when blacks were present.
(d) The bus company should hire black drivers too.

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

3. Several of the Albany leaders were charged with what?
(a) Robbery.
(b) Perjury.
(c) Murder.
(d) Fraud.

4. SCLC employees were unhappy about what?
(a) Their pay.
(b) The death threats they received.
(c) The violence leaders were advocating.
(d) King's schedule.

5. Where did a bomb explode in January?
(a) Birmingham Public Library.
(b) Bethel Baptist Church.
(c) Albany Sheraton Hotel.
(d) First Methodist Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who paid King and Abernathy's fine?

2. Which college did King attend?

3. Why did a riot break out?

4. Who was discovered to have been sent to Montgomery by a New York organization?

5. What did the highway patrol want the marchers do to?

(see the answer key)

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