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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 was arrested and jailed on what date for speeding during the "Get Tough" campaign?
(a) 16 January 1956.
(b) 31 January 1956.
(c) 21 January 1956.
(d) 26 January 1956.

2. King's experiences with the Intercollegiate Council convinced him there were many whites who were allies, particularly whom?
(a) Religious professionals.
(b) Scholarly instructors.
(c) Lower economic income.
(d) Younger generation.

3. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?
(a) $250 or 90 days confinement.
(b) $500 or 365 days confinement.
(c) $500 or 386 days confinement.
(d) $100 or 30 days confinement.

4. People arrived from how many other countries around the world to welcome this new nation in Africa?
(a) 80.
(b) 50.
(c) 70.
(d) 60.

5. Who received a call from John F. Kennedy on 26 October 1960?
(a) Governor S. Ernest Vandiver.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Judge Oscar Mitchell.
(d) Coretta Scott King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr., born?

2. What particularly interested Coretta during the trip to India?

3. King described his mother as having been what?

4. King noted he had come to recognize the true meaning of what phrase through Coretta?

5. What factors regarding King's parents' marriage had a great impact on his religious attitudes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King observe about love?

2. How did King view the Montgomery bus protest?

3. What did King observe that Ghana symbolized?

4. What awoke King and Ralph Abernathy at 2:00 a.m. on 9 January 1957?

5. In his freshman year in college, what was King's view of "On Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau?

6. Why did King choose the pastorate subsequent to his completion of the residential requirements for his doctorate?

7. How did King recall Morehouse College dealt with the issue of racial ills?

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

9. How did King meet Coretta?

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

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