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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who used the term "black power" for the first time in a public form?
(a) Stokley Carmichael.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Ralph Abernathy.

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

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

5. Bevel convinced King that the focus in Chicago should shift from segregation to what?
(a) Sexism in the city offices.
(b) Hiring practices.
(c) Welfare in the black neighborhoods.
(d) Economic disadvantages of the black community.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. What was the first march to the bridge nicknamed?
(a) Path to Glory.
(b) March of Blood.
(c) Bloody Sunday.
(d) March of Violence.

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

13. King demanded that Birmingham hire how many black police officers?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

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

15. Which SNCC leader presented a Proposal for Action which would develop an army of sorts?
(a) John Lewis.
(b) Diane Bevel.
(c) Ella Baker.
(d) Bob Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Riots broke out in which cities?

2. Who released a statement supporting the SCLC's work in Selma?

3. One of SNCC's leaders was arrested in Atlanta on what charge?

4. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?

5. In St. Augustine, rumors arose that the sheriff was a part of what group?

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