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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many girls were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing?

2. How did King feel about the agreement in Chicago?

3. Who urged King to run for president?

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

5. What happened to Meredith along his walk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which city was chosen as the next venue for SCLC demonstrations? Why was it chosen as a site for demonstrations?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Bloody Sunday? What happened during this demonstration? How did King become involved in the situation? What did King and the others plan and how did this turn out?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did this protest begin? What influence did the boycott have on the Civil Rights Movement? Was the boycott successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the tensions that existed in the Civil Rights Movement. This may include tensions between organizations and between people. Why do you think these tensions existed? How were they handled? Would you have done anything differently?

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