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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. Before the March, there were leaks from the FBI claiming that the March was being fueled by whom?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Green Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

2. What illnesses did King suffer from in the summer of 1965?
(a) Exhaustion and kidney stones.
(b) Exhaustion and influenza.
(c) Exhaustion and bronchitis.
(d) Exhaustion and strep throat.

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

4. Who used the term "black power" for the first time in a public form?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Stokley Carmichael.

5. Why did a riot break out?
(a) The city went back on its agreement.
(b) Whites attacked several blacks on the way to church.
(c) The bombs killed 35 people.
(d) The state troopers had moved from the site of the bombings.

Short Answer Questions

1. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?

2. What did people blame King for?

3. What did the package delivered to the King home contain?

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

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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