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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. Why did King maintain that those who set bombs on 11 May 1963 had selected a night and time during which customers were leaving closing bars in a black neighborhood?

2. When did King initially call for a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam?

3. What valediction did King use to conclude his letter?

4. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?

5. On 10 July 1967, at a "Freedom Sunday" rally, King initiated a drive to make Chicago an "open city" for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

2. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?

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

4. What were points King stipulated as to why he opposed the war in Vietnam?

5. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

6. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?

7. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

8. What prompted King to visit Watts immediately following the riots despite being warned not to go there?

9. What transpired in the SCLC headquarters when it was learned that James Meredith had been shot?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the four central barriers that King saw as being employed by Southern communities when denying blacks their right to vote. How did he describe these barriers as being utilized?

Essay Topic 2

Assess the view King held of the student sit-in phase of the early 1960s. What were aspects of protests of that era that he felt distinguished them from earlier periods? What did King stipulate was the ultimate goal of blacks with regard to whites? What did he specify was the moral obligation and ultimate aim of blacks in his analysis of the student movement? "The most significant aspect of this student movement" that King identified was what?

Essay Topic 3

Characterize King's perspective of John F. Kennedy from his Presidential candidacy through his assassination in November, 1963. How was it affected subsequent to King's meeting him? Delineate King's view of Kennedy's commitment to civil rights. How did King compare positions Kennedy adopted with actions he took during his administration? What was his opinion subsequent to Kennedy's death?

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