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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. King elaborated on what land reform movement in India which was virtually unknown in the U.S.?

2. Who was the Governor of Arkansas when federal troops were called in to protect students at Central High School in Little Rock?

3. What location in India did King describe as among the most beautiful in the world?

4. When were the Kings able to make their trip to India?

5. King's collegiate studies made him increasingly skeptical as he could not reconcile what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King observe about love?

2. King described the Montgomery Movement as what type of turning point?

3. What hardships did King recall when he entered college?

4. What was King's next step in his journey toward nonviolence following his studies at Crozer?

5. In the opening of Chapter 11, "Birth of a New Nation," what was it King stipulated Ghana had to say?

6. How did King view the Montgomery bus protest?

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

8. What was it King conveyed about his use of the pronoun "I" in his account of the Montgomery Movement?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the stances King held concerning death. What did King convey about his view regarding death in general? What specifics did he relate regarding his own demise? Consider his near-death experience in Harlem in 1958? What about other death threats and plots against him? What did he relate regarding his own funeral?

Essay Topic 2

Survey King's review of his trial on charges of falsifying income taxes for the State of Alabama for 1956 and 1958. What reasons did he give for having believed he would be found guilty? What reasons did he offer as being in his favor? If he was convinced the jury was prejudiced against him, why did they not convict him? Would the jury not have ruled against King's black attorneys despite the level of their professional legal skills?

Essay Topic 3

Characterize King's doubts about the reliability of the Bible. When did they initially evolve? How did he balance his perception of the Bible with his profession? How was it he was to love a group (i.e., whites,) that hated him?

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