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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Poor People's Campaign and Memphis, 1967-1968.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were SNCC members upset with King?
(a) They felt he was doing too much in the organization.
(b) He wanted to end the Freedom Rides.
(c) They felt he was getting too much credit for the sit-ins.
(d) He tried to usurp the president of the group.

2. King prepared to go to dinner with whom?
(a) Michael Johnson.
(b) Stanley Levison.
(c) Billy Kyle.
(d) Ralph Abernathy.

3. When King was pulled over while driving, what did he not have?
(a) Proof of Insurance.
(b) A voter's registration card.
(c) Car insurance.
(d) A Georgia driver's license.

4. The bus boycott took away what percentage of bus riders?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 50 percent..
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

5. King was accused of what by the state of Alabama?
(a) A hit and run accident.
(b) Perjury for lying on a state tax return.
(c) Stealing from the SCLC.
(d) Unlawful mob action.

Short Answer Questions

1. King taped the list of demands to a door where?

2. Stanley Levison was connected to what party?

3. Who approved several wiretaps on King's personal phone lines?

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of what church?

5. What did King want the Kennedy Administration to issue?

(see the answer key)

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