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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. Violence broke out in what city as activists tried to desegregate local schools?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Grenada.
(d) Jackson.

2. Who approved several wiretaps on King's personal phone lines?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Gerald Ford.

3. At the SCLC convention, King suggested which city as the next one for protests?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Danville.

4. What illnesses did King suffer from in the summer of 1965?
(a) Exhaustion and influenza.
(b) Exhaustion and strep throat.
(c) Exhaustion and kidney stones.
(d) Exhaustion and bronchitis.

5. King abandoned a writing campaign about peace in which country?
(a) Korea.
(b) Panema.
(c) Russia.
(d) Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which city was chosen for SCLC demonstrations because of its noncompliance to the Civil Rights Law of 1964?

3. What did the package delivered to the King home contain?

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

5. Why was King concerned about the direction of SNCC?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why did King agree to suspend all demonstrations in St. Augustine? What did he learn after doing this?

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

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

8. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

9. What organizational and political struggles did King face after Kennedy's death?

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

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