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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) Women.
(b) Cowards.
(c) Children.
(d) Whites.

2. Where were the African Americans allowed to sit when they took a bus to get somewhere?
(a) Front.
(b) Hanging from the side.
(c) Back.
(d) Nowhere.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the battle for freedom and for justice, Dr. King reminds followers to be ____________ and disciplined.

2. Dr. King said that this time was momentous, that a new ____________ was being born during a time which was filled with hope.

3. The planning of each ___________ involved great care and planning, never knowing when or where it would end.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the greatest moral dilemma when it came to the crisis of race relations?

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

3. As a result of the protests the students witnessed, what did they gain in relation to their fears about the Civil Rights movement?

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

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

6. As opposed to nonviolence, what did the protesters first see their actions as when they were first beginning?

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

8. What made the students in the Civil Rights movement have a deeper depth to their actions?

9. What was the crisis in 1962 that allowed the problem of the Civil Rights movement to be less than dominant in society?

10. What is the danger of the strategy of violence as some African Americans might be inclined to do?

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