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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) Going on to Edmund Pettus Bridge.
(b) Turning around and returning to Brown Chapel.
(c) Stopping the march until a settlement could be reached.
(d) Not attending the march to the bridge.

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

3. Who rejected the idea that potential voters should sign a book so they could be received in order?
(a) Grant Selma.
(b) Julian Bond.
(c) James Bevel.
(d) Ralph Abernathy.

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

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

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

7. 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) Join an anti-war group's protest.
(d) Move to Africa.

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

9. Which city did King want to focus attention on in the North?
(a) Akron.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Cleveland.

10. 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.

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

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

13. In which city did the marchers first encounter hostility?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Argon Springs.
(d) Greenwood.

14. The FBI observed meetings between King and whom?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Levison.
(c) Monroe.
(d) Wiesel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?

2. Where did King go after the Meredith March?

3. In 1964, King learned that he had won what?

4. King was warned of an attempt on his life during a visit to where?

5. King was approached by activists in which Florida city to help them garner support in the SCLC for demonstrations?

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