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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. There was an obligation to ensure that all __________________ participated in the enforcement and creative innovations freeing all citizens.
(a) People.
(b) Women.
(c) Federal agencies.
(d) Whites.

2. What were some groups training as they didn't quite believe that nonviolence would be able to work?
(a) Students.
(b) Militias.
(c) Language skills.
(d) Bomb building.

3. Young African Americans felt trapped by the ___________ and slow court processes that kept segregation and discrimination in place.
(a) News stories.
(b) Meetings.
(c) Red tape.
(d) Protests.

4. Dr. King saw the injustice and civil rights as an attack on __________ when he was growing up around it.
(a) Honor.
(b) Self.
(c) God.
(d) Basic humanness.

5. To what country did Dr. King travel in order to see the effects of nonviolence on that society?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) China.
(c) India.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than discouraging the Civil Rights march, the governor should have encouraged the state troopers to avoid _________.

2. Dr. King never talked about the bad things that happened to him as he wanted to avoid a _________ complex.

3. ______________ in civil rights was responsible for this decline in civil rights being at the forefront of the public mind.

4. The growth of __________ among African Americans would not allow people to revert to a subservient and demeaned class.

5. Southern __________ continued to fight against the civil rights measures and bills being put before them.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does integration allow the society to enjoy, according to the writings and the words of Dr. King?

2. What became a new tool in the battle for those unwilling to allow total freedom and justice for all?

3. What happened as a result of the Montgomery boycott which surprised a lot of African Americans?

4. What were some of the forms of persecution that Dr. King endured from the time he began to fight for black rights?

5. What is the danger of the strategy of violence as some African Americans might be inclined to do?

6. What are the three ways in which oppression is historically responded to, according to Dr. King?

7. What does nonviolence, as a means of resisting, require that those who follow this path do?

8. What happened if an African American person wanted to ride a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

9. After what two events did Governor Wallace declare his stubborn resistance to desegregation?

10. What does Dr. King want people to use during the battle for freedom and for justice?

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