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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 blamed the riots on what cause?
(a) The failure of leaders to meet with movement organizations in these cities.
(b) Taking money from social programs for the war.
(c) The demonstrations in Georgia.
(d) The Feminist Movement.

2. What caused King to fall into a depression?
(a) Evers' assassination.
(b) Kennedy's assassination.
(c) The lack of progress in Albany.
(d) The violence in Birmingham.

3. How many girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing?
(a) 4.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

4. The Chicago Project Breadbasket would be run by whom?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. King's vacation to Puerto Rico was interrupted by news of what event?

2. SCLC employees were unhappy about what?

3. Who urged King to run for president?

4. The FBI observed meetings between King and whom?

5. Which city did King want to focus attention on in the North?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What health struggles did King encounter? What contributed to this? What award did he learn that he had won?

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

7. What did King and the SCLC do in Chicago that caused an uproar in the press? Why did they do this?

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

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

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

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