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

2. James Meredith announced his intention to walk from where to where?
(a) New Orleans to Boston.
(b) Chicago to Atlanta.
(c) Biloxi to Washington DC.
(d) Memphis to Jackson.

3. In 1964, King learned that he had won what?
(a) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) The NAACP President.
(c) The lottery.
(d) The Booker T. Washington Award.

4. Which city did King want to focus attention on in the North?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Akron.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Chicago.

5. How did King feel about his meeting with President Johnson?
(a) Impressed by his commitment to the Civil Rights bill.
(b) Glad that Johnson was a fellow Communist.
(c) Depressed about his indifference.
(d) Worried about his stand on voter registration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?

2. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?

3. Bevel convinced King that the focus in Chicago should shift from segregation to what?

4. King's advisers were concerned when King decided to do what?

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

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. What was King's new book about? What interruptions did he face in writing it? How was the book received?

3. Activists in which city approached King about helping them with their boycotts and demonstrations? What was the situation in this city?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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