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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. Dr. King proclaimed that ____________ remained the greatest moral quandary for America.
(a) Violence.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Peace.
(d) Nonviolence.

2. Dr. King believed the true gospel concerns itself with the whole ___________, soul and the body.
(a) Man.
(b) Bible.
(c) Promise.
(d) Race.

3. The ________ was required to industrialize, developing economic power, improving medical care, etc.
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) East.

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

5. Rather than discouraging the Civil Rights march, the governor should have encouraged the state troopers to avoid _________.
(a) Movement.
(b) Watching.
(c) Large groups.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. The movement of African American students to gain access to ______________ across the nation was a newer event.

2. The students began to lose their fear of the ___________ wielded by the white majority and were looking to build brotherhood.

3. One of the many wonders of the boycott and the nonviolent actions was the joining of many local __________ communities.

4. In what city was the bus strike during the time of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. want to stress that nonviolence is NOT for?

2. What became a new tool in the battle for those unwilling to allow total freedom and justice for all?

3. Why were there violent outbreaks of African Americans in some areas, even though the struggle was typically nonviolent?

4. What does the theory of nonviolence teach to those who are willing to practice it during tough times?

5. What did Dr. King tell men and women to do when it came to the rights of the African Americans?

6. When Dr. King was talking to a crowd integrated with both white and black youth, what did he say the generation would be known as?

7. What are the three ways in which oppression is historically responded to, according to Dr. King?

8. What did Dr. King see in India, even with the extreme poverty in the area as he witnessed for himself?

9. What would the Executive Order be able to do for the Civil Rights movement, according to Dr. King?

10. What happened if an African American person wanted to ride a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

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