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

2. King learned of whose death as he left for a fundraising trip?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) President Johnson.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) Rosa Parks.

3. Where did the Meredith March end?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Selma.
(c) Canton.
(d) Atlanta.

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

5. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?
(a) Police dogs attacking a group of activists.
(b) The ruins of a bombed black church.
(c) A police officer beating a black child.
(d) The sheriff using a billyclub on an older black woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Selma, King was suffering from what?

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

3. In October, the federal Office of Education stopped funding to which city's schools because of segregation?

4. Riots broke out in which cities?

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

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. What organizational and political struggles did King face after Kennedy's death?

3. What did King demand of the city of Birmingham? What happened?

4. What was the Coordinating Committee of Community Organizations? Where was this group located?

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

6. Which city was chosen as the next venue for SCLC demonstrations? Why was it chosen as a site for demonstrations?

7. How did SNCC feel about the Chicago agreement? What did they do to show their displeasure? How was SNCC changing?

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

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

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

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