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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. While the South gained respect, the Northern African American drained its ___________ into their struggle.
(a) Family.
(b) Power.
(c) Rights.
(d) Finances.

2. Dr. King believed that the existence of _____________ in a country of wealth was immoral.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Unevenness.
(d) Racism.

3. Many considered the first phase of the ________ protest to be over and to be a failure, a movement to be viewed with suspicion.
(a) Race.
(b) Power.
(c) Black Power.
(d) Peace.

4. Economic power was available, according to Dr. King, to those who _____________ in this time of the world.
(a) Laughed.
(b) Smiled.
(c) Believed.
(d) United.

5. To Dr. King, nonviolent action on a planetary scale was no longer an option, but an imperative for the prevention of ___________.
(a) Government coups.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Nuclear annihilation.
(d) World War Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last conversation with Dr. King was held just ________ days before his assassination.

2. How many times does Dr. King tell Kenneth Clark he has been arrested?

3. Black people who were stuck in _____________ needed to develop a power through organization and collaboration.

4. To move forward, Dr. King suggested that the African American needed to obtain ______________ freedom.

5. The greatest difficulty that African American leaders faced was that they did not want to be equated with the white ___________ that used boycotts to hurt others.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Dr. King think that the four murdered girls spoke to in their deaths?

2. How did the Vietnam War hurt African American men more, according to the thoughts of Dr. King?

3. What did Dr. King accuse American presidents of in terms of their willingness to participate in the human rights movement?

4. What did Dr. King feel the survival of society depended on at this point in time and in this era of change?

5. Why was nonviolent action considered to be imperative to Dr. King at this point in time?

6. What did Dr. King feel would help an African American be lifted to the same level as the rest of America?

7. Where does peace come from, according to Dr. King in his Christmas sermon on peace?

8. What did Dr. King think would happen in society as a result of integration, according to his last conversation?

9. What happened to the North, even as the South and its African American population began to gain respect?

10. What were the weapons used during the conflict against the brutality of Bull Connor?

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