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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Governor George ____________ declared his stubborn resistance to the desegregation and the March to Washington DC.

2. ____________ is a means of resisting and one that requires followers to seek friendship and understanding of opponents.

3. To what country did Dr. King travel in order to see the effects of nonviolence on that society?

4. What is NOT one of the things that Dr. King endured during his time in the Civil Rights movement?

5. Dr. King reminded listeners that while God was on their side, a new age of __________ would not arrive on its own.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the theory of nonviolence teach to those who are willing to practice it during tough times?

3. What did the increased economic status of the African American now allow them to do?

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

5. What was the greatest moral dilemma when it came to the crisis of race relations?

6. What did the men in the Freedom March do as a result of their commitment to be nonviolent?

7. What were the four main forces which enabled the problems of partial integration to be overcome?

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

9. What did the finding of a personal God help Dr. King to do during his years fighting for Civil Rights?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dr. King brings up the idea that there are just laws and unjust laws which may or may not be obeyed.

Part 1: How would you define the idea of a just law? Why?

Part 2: How would you define the idea of an unjust law? Why?

Part 3: Do you think a person has the right to decide which laws are okay to follow and each are not? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Nonviolence arouses a sense of shame and builds reconciliation and redemption in society.

Part 1: Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think that shame leads to reconciliation in other situations? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think shame could be introduced without the use of nonviolence? Or can't it?

Essay Topic 3

Dr. King seemed to think that suffering was a part of the process when you want to succeed in a cause.

Part 1: Do you think suffering is necessary in life? Why or why not?

Part 2: Can a cause ever be fought for without any suffering? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think that Dr. King wanted to suffer to make his cause seem all the more important? Why or why not?

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