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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. King saw the rioting in Los Angeles as having arisen from what?
(a) From disheartenment culminating in masses due to brutal police tactics.
(b) From the hopelessness felt by many regarding their economic destitution.
(c) From desperation many endure concerning race-related discrimination.
(d) From despair over poverty which was inextricably linked with racial justice.

2. More than how many youngsters were arrested in the Birmingham "Children's Crusade" between 2-7 May 1963?
(a) Over 500.
(b) Over 100.
(c) Over 250.
(d) Over 1,000.

3. Where did angry whites attack a Civil Rights march in Chicago on 5 August 1967?
(a) In the Southeast side.
(b) In the Northeeast side.
(c) In the Southwest side.
(d) In the Northwest side.

4. Why was the Black Power political phrase viewed as hypocritical?
(a) It focused on the means used by blacks, not on the goals they sought.
(b) It claimed moral standards to which their own behavior did not conform.
(c) It started with a "nonviolent" group leader but then advocated racial "power".
(d) It advocated using same tools of oppression as were used against them.

5. When did a Ku Klux Klan meeting take place relative to the bombs being having been set?
(a) Shortly following.
(b) Two nights before.
(c) Just prior to the bombings that night.
(d) One night before.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jimmie Lee Jackson die on 26 February 1965 in Marion, Alabama?

2. King argued that opposing violence was pragmatic for what reason?

3. Following a press conference at the U.S. Senate, when was the only encounter King had with Malcolm X?

4. Where was Malcolm X assassinated on 21 February 1965?

5. How many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?

2. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

3. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?

4. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?

5. What did King stipulate in his comparison of racial discrimination in the South and the North?

6. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?

7. What did King say about Selma, Alabama, in 1965?

8. How did King view Senator Barry Goldwater's nomination as the Republican Party's 1964 candidate for President?

9. In the final chapter, what was it King recalled about his stabbing recovery?

10. How did King describe Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth?

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