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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The historic ________ ruling of the Supreme Court was nullified by the actions of the local and state governmental authorities.
(a) 1954.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1961.

2. _____________ is a negative situation that only eliminates exclusion among people, according to Dr. King.
(a) Desegregation.
(b) Elimination.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Integration.

3. What crisis dwarfed the issues of civil rights in 1962, according to Dr. King?
(a) MASH.
(b) Korean War.
(c) Cuban Missile.
(d) Vietnam.

4. What is NOT one of the ways in which oppression is responded to, according to Dr. King?
(a) Nonviolences.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Prayer sessions.
(d) Physical violence.

5. The protesters believed their actions and this love was inspired by _____________ as he called upon men to love one another.
(a) Dr. Sharpton.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Dr. King.

6. Dr. King never talked about the bad things that happened to him as he wanted to avoid a _________ complex.
(a) Prophet.
(b) Painful.
(c) Martyr.
(d) God-like.

7. The United States had become an international power that was unable to enforce even _______________ in a Southern village.
(a) Elementary law.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Order.

8. Southern __________ continued to fight against the civil rights measures and bills being put before them.
(a) Mayors.
(b) Senators.
(c) Presidents.
(d) Churches.

9. To what country did Dr. King travel in order to see the effects of nonviolence on that society?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) China.
(c) Israel.
(d) India.

10. Dr. King wants his followers to only use the weapon of _________ as they battle for their basic rights.
(a) Love.
(b) Silence.
(c) Money.
(d) Truth.

11. Dr. King proclaimed that the group of students in front of him would become known as the generation of ___________.
(a) Nonviolence.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Integration.
(d) Honor.

12. In the beginning, protesters saw their actions as an expression of ___________ love.
(a) Unjust.
(b) Forced.
(c) Baseless.
(d) Christian.

13. America was fortunate, Dr. King said, that the strength of African American protesters was tempered by a sense of _____________.
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Witness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Violence.

14. Dr. King remembers working with a group of gang members from the ___________ ghettos.
(a) Birmingham.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

15. The Montgomery _________ surprised many African Americans when it happened, helping to encourage more.
(a) Bombing.
(b) Speech.
(c) Walk.
(d) Boycott.

Short Answer Questions

1. They needed _____________ for the extreme cases of brutality in order to move forward with civil rights.

2. The president, according to Dr. King, had a fundamental responsibility as leader of the country to lead the way forward to securing __________.

3. Discrimination, according to Dr. King, thrives on a belief of ________________, which led to segregation.

4. What is NOT one of the things that Dr. King endured during his time in the Civil Rights movement?

5. Men and women at this point had died for their right to ______________, with their blood on the hands of all Americans.

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