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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?
(a) 3,700.
(b) 9,500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 2,400.

2. What phrase did King use to describe the approach the black community would follow in its pursuit of the Poor People's Campaign?
(a) "An inspired, militant, violent movement as necessary."
(b) "An effective, militant, nonviolent movement."
(c) "An effective, honorable, nonviolent movement."
(d) "A nonviolet movement, but as militant as necessary."

3. King noted that the 1964 election afforded the civil rights, labor, religious, and intellectual leaders alliance what within a year?
(a) Their fourth major victory.
(b) Their third major victory.
(c) Their second major victory.
(d) Their first major victory.

4. How many of his attorneys were allowed to visit King on Easter Sunday afternoon?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) None.
(d) 3.

5. What did King organize with Chicago's Mayor R. Daley and others on 26 August 1967?
(a) The Nonviolence Agreement.
(b) The Summit Agreement.
(c) The Desegregation Agreement.
(d) The Amicability Agreement.

6. King stipulated he "deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems" for how long?
(a) All his adult life.
(b) Since high school.
(c) Since the Vietnam War.
(d) Since the Korean War.

7. After he explained why he was responding to their letter, what was the first item King addressed?
(a) The four basic steps required by any nonviolent campaign.
(b) Their deploration of Birmingham demonstrations, not the causes of them.
(c) He related the events sequentially that led up to the demonstrations.
(d) Why he was in Birmingham and their view against "'outsiders coming in.'"

8. When were King and Abernathy released from jail on 19 April 1963?
(a) When charges were dropped.
(b) When bond was posted.
(c) When the fine was paid.
(d) When a call was received from John Kennedy.

9. King believed that the poor in Los Angeles saw the riots as their only means of doing what?
(a) Punishing authorities.
(b) Achieving retribution.
(c) Gaining equitable goods.
(d) Getting noticed.

10. On 18 March 1968, King spoke before which striking labor group in Memphis?
(a) Industrial Assemblers Union.
(b) Sanitation workers.
(c) Harvest workers.
(d) American Federation of Labor.

11. On what day was President Kennedy assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as President?
(a) 12 November 1963.
(b) 27 November 1963.
(c) 17 November 1963.
(d) 22 November 1963.

12. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?
(a) The Kings' motel and his brother's church.
(b) The homes of King's brother and Abernathy.
(c) The Kings' motel and his brother's home.
(d) The church of King's brother and Abernathy's home.

13. A dynamite blast killed how many young black girls in Sunday school at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

14. What did the State of California repeal?
(a) Its law preventing racial discrimination in housing.
(b) Its law preventing segregation in restaurants.
(c) Its law preventing racial discrimination in employment.
(d) Its law preventing segregation in schools.

15. When did a Ku Klux Klan meeting take place relative to the bombs being having been set?
(a) Shortly following.
(b) Two nights before.
(c) One night before.
(d) Just prior to the bombings that night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was King assassinated on 4 April 1968?

2. How did King respond to President Kennedy's having called Coretta over Easter weekend?

3. President Kennedy called Coretta Scott King and expressed concern for her husband on what date?

4. Civil rights leaders focused on Selma, Alabama, in 1965 as 15,000 blacks were eligible to vote there, but only how many were registered?

5. How many people took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

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