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

2. What was added to the activities in Chicago?
(a) Speeches on equality.
(b) Voter registration.
(c) Boycott of downtown stores.
(d) A march to Detroit.

3. King abandoned a writing campaign about peace in which country?
(a) Panema.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Korea.
(d) Russia.

4. The judge ruled that the march to Montgomery had to have less than what number of marchers?
(a) 500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 300.

5. Why was there an uproar in the Chicago press about King?
(a) His affairs were revealed.
(b) The SCLC seized a building.
(c) He attended a communist meeting.
(d) A SNCC demonstration shut down the downtown area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Demonstrations began in which state to test the compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

2. King learned of whose death as he left for a fundraising trip?

3. What did the highway patrol want the marchers do to?

4. SCLC employees were unhappy about what?

5. In Chicago, the movement included nine points in their demand about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the federal Office of Education do in Chicago? How did this affect the movement?

2. Who was James Meredith? What did he decide to do? What happened to him?

3. What happened to the Meredith March after Meredith was shot?

4. 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?

5. What did King's wife receive? How did King feel about this?

6. Who first used the term "black power?" How did King feel about the term?

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

8. What did Hoover tell reporters? How did King react? What effect did the rumors have?

9. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

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

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