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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 was approached by activists in which Florida city to help them garner support in the SCLC for demonstrations?
(a) Panama City.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) Orlando.
(d) Miami.

2. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?
(a) The swim-ins stop.
(b) King and other outside leaders left town.
(c) SNCC ceased its demonstrations.
(d) The President told them to.

3. King demanded that Birmingham hire how many black police officers?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

4. Who urged King to run for president?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Dr. Spock.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

5. A judge ordered that registrars had to begin accepting how many applications per day?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 75.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing?

2. Why did the Chicago Freedom Movement begin to lose momentum?

3. The Democratic Convention took place in which city?

4. What illnesses did King suffer from in the summer of 1965?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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