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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. What was the date of James Farmer's trip from Washington, D.C., to the South?

2. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?

3. According to Dr. King, during his first national address, why were inhabitants of the twentieth century privileged?

4. On what date was interstate traveling first challenged by an African American?

5. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the problems associated with the shift from rural to urban life for African Americans?

2. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," how are the extreme race relations of the South explained?

3. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did he think that white people thought blacks deserved (and enjoyed) second-class status?

4. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," what were blacks asking for as part of the "southern pattern"?

5. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," how did the African American's awareness of the struggle for freedom in a worldwide realm help to account for a new sense of dignity?

6. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would "this generation" not take?

7. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," what would it take for the "master race" to civilize African Americans "to a degree"?

8. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," there were eight descriptions of the "New Negro." What were three of the eight of the descriptions?

9. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what is the primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination?

10. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the march demonstrate to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the "Drum Major Instinct." What is the "Drum Major Instinct"? How did it develop? Upon what is it based ? What is the "Drum Major Instinct's" importance to the Civil Rights Movement? Why did Dr. King find it necessary to design a sermon around the "Drum Major Instinct"?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Martin Luther King, Jr.'s motivation for participating in the Civil Rights Movement. Why did he find it necessary to take on such a major role in the movement? How did he qualify as the leader of such a movement?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the sermons/speeches used for I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World. Discuss the importance of the sermon/speech's inclusion. Why is it important to have this speech/sermon serving as part of the whole? Why did you choose this sermon/speech as the most important of the text?

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