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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. Where was King assassinated on 4 April 1968?

2. On 18 March 1968, King spoke before which striking labor group in Memphis?

3. How many people took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

4. The 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace was received by King, but whom did he feel truly deserved the award?

5. How many speeches did King give in Memphis in March, 1968, about aid to government employees and against antipoverty policies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did King view St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964?

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

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

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

5. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

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

7. King experienced what when he initially took his position on the war in Vietnam?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze King's reasoning for what he termed "a turning point in my life" in 1960. Why did King move to Atlanta and accept a co-pastor position? In what events did he become involved during the first year? How did his schedule in Atlanta compare with what it had been in Montgomery? What did he soon come to recognize?

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