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

2. What was King's biggest concern about the murder?
(a) The voter registration bill would not pass.
(b) SNCC would fall into a decline.
(c) The escalating violence against Civil Rights advocates.
(d) That the culprit would not be caught.

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

4. Where was some of the worst police violence seen through 1964?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Summertree.
(c) Danville.
(d) Birmingham.

5. What tragedy happened before the march to Montgomery?
(a) A volunteer was killed by KKK members.
(b) Congress voted down the Civil Rights Act.
(c) The King house was bombed.
(d) Abernathy was stabbed by a white woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The judge ruled that the march to Montgomery had to have less than what number of marchers?

4. What was added to the activities in Chicago?

5. Violence broke out in what city as activists tried to desegregate local schools?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the SCLC and King become interested in Chicago?

3. 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?

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

5. What obstacles did King and the others face during the Meredith March? How did they handle these obstacles?

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

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

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

9. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

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

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