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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. One of SNCC's leaders was arrested in Atlanta on what charge?
(a) Breaking into police headquarters.
(b) Killing a police officer.
(c) Robbing a bank.
(d) Instigating a riot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Meredith want to encourage with this walk?

3. Who was famous for being the first black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi?

4. King abandoned a writing campaign about peace in which country?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King and the others do to increase the pressure on officials in Selma? Were these actions a success?

2. Why did King agree to suspend all demonstrations in St. Augustine? What did he learn after doing this?

3. Where did riots break out? What did King say caused the riots?

4. Following the protests in Selma, what other avenues to desegregation did the SCLC discuss? What did King share with the SCLC at this meeting?

5. Activists in which city approached King about helping them with their boycotts and demonstrations? What was the situation in this city?

6. Why was King arrested in St. Augustine? What was the result of the grand jury?

7. How did King feel about the war in Vietnam? How did he become involved in the debate over the war? What reaction did people have to this?

8. What did the SCLC turn their attention to in Chicago? What programs did it implement?

9. What occurred during the Chicago marches? What did city officials do?

10. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

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