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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What compromise in Selma was King criticized for?
(a) Not attending the march to the bridge.
(b) Stopping the march until a settlement could be reached.
(c) Turning around and returning to Brown Chapel.
(d) Going on to Edmund Pettus Bridge.

2. Who was to lead the march in Selma?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) King.
(c) Wallace.
(d) Rustin.

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

4. In St. Augustine, King was arrested for what?
(a) Tax evasion.
(b) Robbery.
(c) Conspiracy to commit murder.
(d) Delinquency of a minor.

5. Who heckled King during his speech?
(a) CCCO.
(b) NAACP.
(c) SNCC.
(d) SCLC.

6. Shortly after the March on Washington, racial tensions heated up in which city?
(a) Albany.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Montgomery.

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

8. The Democratic Convention took place in which city?
(a) Tampa.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) St. Louis.

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

10. Demonstrations began in which state to test the compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(a) Michigan.
(b) California.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Illinois.

11. As King went to register at a local hotel, who attacked him?
(a) An old white woman.
(b) A Nazi.
(c) The hotel owner.
(d) A KKK member.

12. In St. Augustine, rumors arose that the sheriff was a part of what group?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The Nazi Party.
(c) The Masons.
(d) The KKK.

13. Who was famous for being the first black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
(a) James Meredith.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Wayne Johnson.
(d) Michael Jury.

14. James Meredith announced his intention to walk from where to where?
(a) Chicago to Atlanta.
(b) Memphis to Jackson.
(c) Biloxi to Washington DC.
(d) New Orleans to Boston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city did King want to focus attention on in the North?

2. What was added to the activities in Chicago?

3. In October, the federal Office of Education stopped funding to which city's schools because of segregation?

4. Who used the term "black power" for the first time in a public form?

5. In Selma, King was suffering from what?

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