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

2. Where did King go after the Meredith March?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Chicago.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) Fairfax.

3. 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) Job discrimination.
(d) The segregation of the schools.

4. What compromise in Selma was King criticized for?
(a) Not attending the march to the bridge.
(b) Stopping the march until a settlement could be reached.
(c) Turning around and returning to Brown Chapel.
(d) Going on to Edmund Pettus Bridge.

5. Where did the Meredith March end?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Selma.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Canton.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Shortly after the March on Washington, racial tensions heated up in which city?

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

5. One of SNCC's leaders was arrested in Atlanta on what charge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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