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

2. What was the main source of racial trouble in Chicago?
(a) The violence in low-income areas.
(b) The corruption in the justice system.
(c) The segregation of the schools.
(d) Job discrimination.

3. King was warned of an attempt on his life during a visit to where?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Selma.
(d) Marion.

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

5. King felt that "black power" had what implication?
(a) Black violence.
(b) Black suffrage.
(c) Black cooperation.
(d) Black separation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?

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

3. What compromise in Selma was King criticized for?

4. Where did the marchers return to in order to have a meeting to outline the march?

5. What was King's biggest concern about the murder?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did riots break out? What did King say caused the riots?

3. What was Bloody Sunday? Describe this event.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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