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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. What did Meredith want to encourage with this walk?
(a) Black voter turnout.
(b) Ending bus segregation.
(c) Black poverty.
(d) The war in Vietnam.

2. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Tear gas.
(c) Swords.
(d) Police dogs.

3. Where did the marchers return to in order to have a meeting to outline the march?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Memphis.

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

5. The mayor of Chicago announced a plan to clean up what?
(a) The busing system.
(b) The schools.
(c) The slums.
(d) The downtown area.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The CCCO was based in which city?

3. Tensions between the SCLC and which group grew during 1963 and 1964?

4. The FBI observed meetings between King and whom?

5. At the SCLC convention, King suggested which city as the next one for protests?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

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

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

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

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

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