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

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

3. Governor George ____________ declared his stubborn resistance to the desegregation and the March to Washington DC.
(a) Evers.
(b) Smith.
(c) Thurmond.
(d) Wallace.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Token _________ are not satisfactory ends, according to Dr. King and to his writing and his speeches.

2. __________ is a legal form of violence, but it diverts attention from the primary purpose of gaining civil rights.

3. What would have happened if African American people refused to give up their seats to a white person?

4. Dr. King proclaimed that ____________ remained the greatest moral quandary for America.

5. There was an obligation to ensure that all __________________ participated in the enforcement and creative innovations freeing all citizens.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the forms of persecution that Dr. King endured from the time he began to fight for black rights?

2. What were the four main forces which enabled the problems of partial integration to be overcome?

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

4. What happened as a result of the Montgomery boycott which surprised a lot of African Americans?

5. What did Dr. King say happened when voting rights were opened to all groups of people?

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

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

8. Where were some of the problems that people in the ghetto were facing on a near daily basis?

9. 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?

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

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