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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was King's biggest concern about the murder?
(a) That the culprit would not be caught.
(b) SNCC would fall into a decline.
(c) The escalating violence against Civil Rights advocates.
(d) The voter registration bill would not pass.

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

3. CCCO staged a march that ended in how many arrests?
(a) 900.
(b) 4000.
(c) 200.
(d) 60.

4. King taped the list of demands to a door where?
(a) A White Church.
(b) Public Library.
(c) Police Headquarters.
(d) City Hall.

5. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?
(a) SNCC ceased its demonstrations.
(b) The swim-ins stop.
(c) The President told them to.
(d) King and other outside leaders left town.

6. What did the highway patrol want the marchers do to?
(a) Turn around and go back.
(b) Turn violent so they could be arrested.
(c) Apologize for the march.
(d) Get off the pavement.

7. King blamed the riots on what cause?
(a) The Feminist Movement.
(b) Taking money from social programs for the war.
(c) The failure of leaders to meet with movement organizations in these cities.
(d) The demonstrations in Georgia.

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

9. How many girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing?
(a) 2.
(b) 13.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

10. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?
(a) Swords.
(b) Tear gas.
(c) Machine guns.
(d) Police dogs.

11. Who released a statement supporting the SCLC's work in Selma?
(a) President Johnson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

12. Where did the marchers return to in order to have a meeting to outline the march?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Atlanta.

13. At the SCLC convention, King suggested which city as the next one for protests?
(a) Savannah.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Danville.
(d) Biloxi.

14. Which city was chosen for SCLC demonstrations because of its noncompliance to the Civil Rights Law of 1964?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Selma.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Dallas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. King's advisers were concerned when King decided to do what?

2. The Democratic Convention took place in which city?

3. King abandoned a writing campaign about peace in which country?

4. As King went to register at a local hotel, who attacked him?

5. King learned of whose death as he left for a fundraising trip?

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