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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were some groups training as they didn't quite believe that nonviolence would be able to work?
(a) Bomb building.
(b) Language skills.
(c) Militias.
(d) Students.

2. What kind of segregation was India facing in its own country, that Gandhi felt compelled to address?
(a) Age.
(b) Land.
(c) Caste.
(d) Gender.

3. Who receives parity, subsides and incentives when they are in the world, according to Dr. King?
(a) The children.
(b) The poor.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The wealthy.

4. The _________ of the slums learned that hatred and bigotry could and should be confronted, exposed, and dealt with.
(a) Schools.
(b) Churches.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

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

6. __________ is a legal form of violence, but it diverts attention from the primary purpose of gaining civil rights.
(a) Sitting.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Protesting.
(d) Self-defense.

7. The students began to lose their fear of the ___________ wielded by the white majority and were looking to build brotherhood.
(a) White.
(b) Republican.
(c) Black.
(d) Police.

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

9. What did the people do instead of giving in to a discriminatory bus system in Alabama?
(a) Use cars.
(b) Stay at home.
(c) Use the train.
(d) Walk.

10. Dr. King wants to point out a lot of things about the use of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not for __________, for example.
(a) Cowards.
(b) Whites.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

11. Dr. King believed the commitment to nonviolence would prevent an increase of ___________ in society.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Movement.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Peace.

12. What is NOT one of the things that Dr. King endured during his time in the Civil Rights movement?
(a) Home bombing.
(b) Jailing.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Near fatal stabbing.

13. The whites of the __________ forgot they had developed a social caste system and culture, even believing the lie.
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) West.

14. The sacrifices of the people for others and for the cause of freedom developed ___________ and worth for everyone.
(a) Disorganization.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Pity.
(d) Unrest.

15. The plans for the future, said Dr. King, involve the removal of blockage, not pouring _________ over the troubled waters in order to calm them.
(a) Fire.
(b) Oil.
(c) Cement.
(d) Sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ is a means of resisting and one that requires followers to seek friendship and understanding of opponents.

2. Southern __________ continued to fight against the civil rights measures and bills being put before them.

3. ______________ in civil rights was responsible for this decline in civil rights being at the forefront of the public mind.

4. The white power structure perpetuated the __________ that African Americans were moving too fast.

5. From the time of the founding of the country, _______________ of the peoples had existed.

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