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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to Meredith along his walk?
(a) He meet King.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was made vice-president of the SCLC.
(d) He was beaten up.

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

4. King felt that "black power" had what implication?
(a) Black violence.
(b) Black cooperation.
(c) Black suffrage.
(d) Black separation.

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

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

7. A judge ordered that registrars had to begin accepting how many applications per day?
(a) 75.
(b) 20.
(c) 100.
(d) 500.

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

9. King's advisers were concerned when King decided to do what?
(a) Stage a hunger strike in jail.
(b) Join an anti-war group's protest.
(c) Move to Africa.
(d) Go public with his affairs.

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

11. In Selma, King was suffering from what?
(a) Measles.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Chicken pox.

12. In 1964, King learned that he had won what?
(a) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) The NAACP President.
(c) The lottery.
(d) The Booker T. Washington Award.

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

14. What caused King to fall into a depression?
(a) The violence in Birmingham.
(b) Kennedy's assassination.
(c) Evers' assassination.
(d) The lack of progress in Albany.

15. Why was King concerned about the direction of SNCC?
(a) It seemed to be backing away from conflicts.
(b) It seemed to be compromising too much on racial issues.
(c) It seemed to be declining.
(d) It seemed to be becoming more violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. The CCCO was based in which city?

2. The Chicago Project Breadbasket would be run by whom?

3. James Meredith announced his intention to walk from where to where?

4. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?

5. How did King feel about the agreement in Chicago?

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