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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chicago Project Breadbasket would be run by whom?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

4. What was the main source of racial trouble in Chicago?
(a) The segregation of the schools.
(b) The corruption in the justice system.
(c) The violence in low-income areas.
(d) Job discrimination.

5. Where did King go after the Meredith March?
(a) Fairfax.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Dallas.
(d) St. Augustine.

6. 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 ruins of a bombed black church.
(d) The sheriff using a billyclub on an older black woman.

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

8. Violence broke out in what city as activists tried to desegregate local schools?
(a) Grenada.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) New Orleans.

9. Riots broke out in which cities?
(a) Newark and Detroit.
(b) Omaha and New Orleans.
(c) Dallas and San Diego.
(d) Seattle and Madison.

10. What did the package delivered to the King home contain?
(a) A bomb.
(b) Photos of King at a communist meeting.
(c) A letter from King to Stalin.
(d) Recording from FBI wiretaps.

11. The judge ruled that the march to Montgomery had to have less than what number of marchers?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 1,000.

12. Why did the Chicago Freedom Movement begin to lose momentum?
(a) The lack of an attainable goal.
(b) Demonstrator arrests.
(c) The lack of a leader.
(d) The lack of funds.

13. Where did King go to work on his book?
(a) England.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Jamaica.

14. Who urged King to run for president?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) Nelson Mandela.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was added to the activities in Chicago?

2. Where did the marchers return to in order to have a meeting to outline the march?

3. Who rejected the idea that potential voters should sign a book so they could be received in order?

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

5. In Selma, King was suffering from what?

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