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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?
(a) SNCC ceased its demonstrations.
(b) King and other outside leaders left town.
(c) The President told them to.
(d) The swim-ins stop.

2. How did King feel about the agreement in Chicago?
(a) Worried.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Satisfied.
(d) Angered.

3. The Chicago Project Breadbasket would be run by whom?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

4. Riots broke out in which cities?
(a) Newark and Detroit.
(b) Seattle and Madison.
(c) Dallas and San Diego.
(d) Omaha and New Orleans.

5. Who urged King to run for president?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Nelson Mandela.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

6. Where did King and the potential voters refuse to vacate the sidewalk?
(a) The courthouse.
(b) The chamber of commerce.
(c) The police station.
(d) The hospital.

7. What caused King to fall into a depression?
(a) The violence in Birmingham.
(b) Kennedy's assassination.
(c) Evers' assassination.
(d) The lack of progress in Albany.

8. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?
(a) Machine guns.
(b) Swords.
(c) Tear gas.
(d) Police dogs.

9. What was the first march to the bridge nicknamed?
(a) March of Violence.
(b) March of Blood.
(c) Path to Glory.
(d) Bloody Sunday.

10. Shortly after the March on Washington, racial tensions heated up in which city?
(a) Albany.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Atlanta.

11. The FBI observed meetings between King and whom?
(a) Monroe.
(b) Wiesel.
(c) Levison.
(d) Stalin.

12. What illnesses did King suffer from in the summer of 1965?
(a) Exhaustion and kidney stones.
(b) Exhaustion and bronchitis.
(c) Exhaustion and strep throat.
(d) Exhaustion and influenza.

13. Violence broke out in what city as activists tried to desegregate local schools?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) Jackson.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Grenada.

14. Where was some of the worst police violence seen through 1964?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Danville.
(d) Summertree.

15. King's advisers were concerned when King decided to do what?
(a) Go public with his affairs.
(b) Move to Africa.
(c) Join an anti-war group's protest.
(d) Stage a hunger strike in jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. King learned that the Johnson Administration was taking money from social programs for what?

2. Tensions between the SCLC and which group grew during 1963 and 1964?

3. Who heckled King during his speech?

4. Where did the Meredith March end?

5. In St. Augustine, rumors arose that the sheriff was a part of what group?

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