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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King was approached by activists in which Florida city to help them garner support in the SCLC for demonstrations?
(a) Miami.
(b) Panama City.
(c) Orlando.
(d) St. Augustine.

2. What caused tension between the SCLC and SNCC?
(a) A letter by Abernathy.
(b) King's leadership.
(c) Sharing of finances.
(d) Credit for demonstrations.

3. Demonstrations began in which state to test the compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(a) Michigan.
(b) California.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Illinois.

4. Who was famous for being the first black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
(a) Michael Jury.
(b) James Meredith.
(c) Wayne Johnson.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

5. Who was to lead the march in Selma?
(a) King.
(b) Rustin.
(c) Wallace.
(d) Malcolm X.

6. James Meredith announced his intention to walk from where to where?
(a) Memphis to Jackson.
(b) New Orleans to Boston.
(c) Biloxi to Washington DC.
(d) Chicago to Atlanta.

7. Where did the marchers attempt to camp, but were told to move on?
(a) The courthouse steps.
(b) A Baptist church.
(c) A black elementary school.
(d) A cemetery.

8. In 1964, King learned that he had won what?
(a) The Booker T. Washington Award.
(b) The lottery.
(c) The NAACP President.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

9. King learned that the Johnson Administration was taking money from social programs for what?
(a) Adding more police officers.
(b) Financing a bank bailout.
(c) Aid to Africa.
(d) The war in Vietnam.

10. Who rejected the idea that potential voters should sign a book so they could be received in order?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) James Bevel.
(c) Julian Bond.
(d) Grant Selma.

11. SCLC employees were unhappy about what?
(a) The death threats they received.
(b) Their pay.
(c) The violence leaders were advocating.
(d) King's schedule.

12. What did Meredith want to encourage with this walk?
(a) Ending bus segregation.
(b) The war in Vietnam.
(c) Black voter turnout.
(d) Black poverty.

13. King abandoned a writing campaign about peace in which country?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Panema.
(c) Russia.
(d) Korea.

14. The mayor of Chicago announced a plan to clean up what?
(a) The downtown area.
(b) The busing system.
(c) The slums.
(d) The schools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As King went to register at a local hotel, who attacked him?

2. What were the marchers attacked with in Canton?

3. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?

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

5. King demanded that Birmingham hire how many black police officers?

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