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

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

3. On 26 July 1965 King led a march on Chicago City Hall and spoke before a rally sponsored by which organization?
(a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
(b) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(c) Chicago's Coordination Council of Community Organizations (CCCO).
(d) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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

5. Racial rioting between 12-14 July 1967 on Chicago's West Side resulted in what?
(a) Two deaths and contained destruction.
(b) Five deaths and contained destruction.
(c) In 5 deaths and widespread destruction.
(d) Two deaths and widespread destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. King noted that the 1964 election afforded the civil rights, labor, religious, and intellectual leaders alliance what within a year?

2. How did Jimmie Lee Jackson die on 26 February 1965 in Marion, Alabama?

3. How many civil rights workers were reported missing following their arrests in June, 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi?

4. President Kennedy announced a new civil rights proposal on 11 June 1963 and met with King when?

5. When was NAACP leader Medgar Evans assassinated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did King use the phrase "one of the most important meetings we ever convened" to depict a SCLC staff meeting held in November, 1967?

2. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

3. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?

4. Why did King see "the poverty of conscience of the white majority in Birmingham" as being clearest at the child martyrs' funerals in September 1963?

5. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

6. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?

7. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?

8. How did King view St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964?

9. How did King describe Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth?

10. How did King describe life?

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