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

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

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

4. The growth of __________ among African Americans would not allow people to revert to a subservient and demeaned class.
(a) Self respect.
(b) Peace.
(c) Honor.
(d) Truth.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dr. King wants to point out a lot of things about the use of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not for __________, for example.

3. The students broke __________ laws, accepting that there were penalties to pay for doing so, and accepting these penalties willingly.

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

5. Nonviolence arouses a sense of ________ and builds reconciliation and redemption within a society.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. King want people to use during the battle for freedom and for justice?

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

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

4. What did the increased economic status of the African American now allow them to do?

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

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

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

8. After what two events did Governor Wallace declare his stubborn resistance to desegregation?

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

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

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