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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. When did King deliver his trial sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery?
(a) 24 January 1955.
(b) 12 June 1955.
(c) 12 June 1954.
(d) 24 January 1954.

2. It was primarily under Edgar S. Brightman and L. Harold DeWolf that King studied what?
(a) Socialistic philosophy.
(b) Christian theology.
(c) Personalistic philosophy.
(d) Calvinistic philosophy.

3. On 17 February 1960, King was charged with falsifying his Alabama income tax records for what years?
(a) Both 1957 and 1958.
(b) Both 1957 and 1959.
(c) Both 1956 and 1958.
(d) Both 1956 and 1957.

4. What shackles did King describe as being removed from his body during his first two college years?
(a) Impropriety.
(b) Fundamentalism.
(c) Detestation.
(d) Immorality.

5. City and bus officials felt the bus protest would pass quickly once what happened?
(a) The first rainy day arrived.
(b) Initial interest diminished.
(c) Protestors grew weary of walking.
(d) Volunteers tired of transporting.

Short Answer Questions

1. King believed preaching should come from the people's experiences, and specified that he must know what about those he pastored?

2. What was it King's college training did, especially during his first two years?

3. King began his freshman year at Morehouse College on what date?

4. When did a Montgomery Grand Jury indict King and others on an antiboycott law?

5. King was initially exposed to what position of Dr. A.J. Muste that deeply moved but did not convince him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King observe that Ghana symbolized?

2. How did King conclude he dealt with the traumas he faced in 1958?

3. How did King's behavior reflect upon his perceived stereotype whites typically had of blacks?

4. How did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe his being religious?

5. How did King describe his initial meeting with John F. Kennedy?

6. How did King describe his meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon?

7. What did King note about the Great Depression?

8. What city did King consider to be his home?

9. What was it King believed had been shoved upon his generation?

10. How did King view the Montgomery bus protest?

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