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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. Who introduced Dr. King for his last and final sermon?
(a) Michael Schwerner.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) Stokely Carmichael.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

2. When did the demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, reach their worst problems?
(a) June 1 and 4, 1968.
(b) April 1 and 4, 1967.
(c) March 1 and 4, 1966.
(d) February 1 and 4, 1965.

3. According to Chapter 16 "A Time To Break Silence," who did the United States find it "easier to engage in warfare" as opposed to the Soviet Union?
(a) The citizens of the U.S.
(b) The French.
(c) The Koreans.
(d) People of color.

4. According to Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here," what "spawned" the Cold War?
(a) Need for power.
(b) Mild disagreements.
(c) Mutual fear and hostility.
(d) Hatred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the march during which Dr. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech?

2. What year was the Ebenezer Baptist church formed?

3. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the powerless never experience?

4. How old was Dr. King when he was assassinated?

5. On what date did Dr. King deliver his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to King's speech "A Time to Break Silence," who was the most "vicious modern dictator"?

3. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," the song "America" needed to be sung, and believed, by all that sang it. Name three things that King wanted freedom to ring from.

4. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", what did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim was the creed of the Negro's self-affirmation?

5. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?," what did King mean by "as long as a mind is enslaved, the body can never be free"?

6. Why did political rightists, described in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," claim that Martin Luther King, Jr., was unpatriotic?

7. 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?

8. During the delivery of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964, what were three of the eight "beliefs" King spoke of?

9. In King's speech "Black Power Defined," King declared that the "economic highway to power has few entry lanes for Negroes." How did he explain the meaning behind this statement?

10. 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"?

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