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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King's vacation to Puerto Rico was interrupted by news of what event?
(a) The end of the Vietnam War.
(b) The Watts Riots.
(c) Kennedy's assassination.
(d) The Moon landing.

2. Where did the marchers attempt to camp, but were told to move on?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) The courthouse steps.
(c) A Baptist church.
(d) A black elementary school.

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

4. How did King feel about his meeting with President Johnson?
(a) Glad that Johnson was a fellow Communist.
(b) Depressed about his indifference.
(c) Impressed by his commitment to the Civil Rights bill.
(d) Worried about his stand on voter registration.

5. King learned that the Johnson Administration was taking money from social programs for what?
(a) The war in Vietnam.
(b) Financing a bank bailout.
(c) Aid to Africa.
(d) Adding more police officers.

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

7. What did Meredith want to encourage with this walk?
(a) Black voter turnout.
(b) Ending bus segregation.
(c) Black poverty.
(d) The war in Vietnam.

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

9. Where did King and the potential voters refuse to vacate the sidewalk?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The courthouse.
(c) The police station.
(d) The chamber of commerce.

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

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

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

13. How did King feel about the agreement in Chicago?
(a) Worried.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Angered.
(d) Satisfied.

14. What caused tension between the SCLC and SNCC?
(a) Sharing of finances.
(b) Credit for demonstrations.
(c) King's leadership.
(d) A letter by Abernathy.

15. King was warned of an attempt on his life during a visit to where?
(a) Marion.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Selma.
(d) Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who heckled King during his speech?

2. Who approved several wiretaps on King's personal phone lines?

3. Which city was chosen for SCLC demonstrations because of its noncompliance to the Civil Rights Law of 1964?

4. Riots broke out in which cities?

5. A judge ordered that registrars had to begin accepting how many applications per day?

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