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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. The protesters believed their actions and this love was inspired by _____________ as he called upon men to love one another.
(a) Dr. King.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Dr. Sharpton.
(d) Jesus Christ.

2. Young African Americans felt trapped by the ___________ and slow court processes that kept segregation and discrimination in place.
(a) Protests.
(b) Red tape.
(c) Meetings.
(d) News stories.

3. 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.

4. In the beginning, protesters saw their actions as an expression of ___________ love.
(a) Baseless.
(b) Unjust.
(c) Christian.
(d) Forced.

5. ___________ not only harms one physically, but it injures one spiritually, according to Dr. King.
(a) Desegregation.
(b) Pain.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Integration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT one of the ways that progress towards integration was fought?

2. America was fortunate, Dr. King said, that the strength of African American protesters was tempered by a sense of _____________.

3. Dr. King believed the true gospel concerns itself with the whole ___________, soul and the body.

4. Dr. King asked people around him to pray for peace and justice in the world as the Civil Rights movement was a __________ movement as well.

5. Dr. King wants his followers to only use the weapon of _________ as they battle for their basic rights.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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