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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. What must people of oppression accumulate to realize deliverance?
(a) The heart to want change.
(b) The power to enforce change.
(c) The consciousness of a problem.
(d) The right to enforce change.

2. When did Dr. King speak publicly in an anti-war demonstration?
(a) March 25, 1967.
(b) October 25, 1967.
(c) April 25, 1967.
(d) June 25, 1967.

3. During the Cold War, what were civil rights activists accused of being?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Communists.
(c) Unappreciative and un-American.
(d) Loyalists.

4. What was the name of the 37-year-old NAACP field secretary murdered on his front porch on June 12, 1963?
(a) Medgar Evans.
(b) William Pickens.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Robert Bagnall.

5. What publication printed Dr. King's most historic and controversial address tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?
(a) Ebony 21.
(b) Negro History Bulletin.
(c) Worldview.
(d) Freedomways.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here," what did political rightists accuse Dr. King?

2. Where did Dr. King deliver his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

3. Why did Dr. King admit that he felt depressed prior to giving the speech in Chapter 20: "I See the Promise Land"?

4. When did W.E.B. DuBois die?

5. Who was sworn into the presidency following the assassination of JFK?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," who should be able to allow freedom to ring? Who did King include when he named the groups that should be allowed to "let freedom ring"?

2. According to King's speech "A Time to Break Silence," what change did America make in effort to "quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused"?

3. During the delivery of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964, he declared some "refusals." What were the two refusals that King put forth during his speech?

4. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe Americans as "strange liberators" in "A Time to Break Silence"?

5. According to the summary in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?", what were the circumstances that surrounded King's last and most radical address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference presidential address?

6. What prompted the Nobel Peace Prize committee to search for the "greatest apostle of peace" in 1964?

7. What did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim to be ironic about America's tension with the National Liberation Front?

8. According the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?", what happened in the United States during the Cold War to upset the Civil Rights Movement?

9. What were the circumstances that surrounded King's "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"?

10. In 1967, as summarized in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," Martin Luther King, Jr., felt caught between two distinct groups for very different reasons. Who did King feel caught between and why?

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