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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 saw the injustice and civil rights as an attack on __________ when he was growing up around it.
(a) Self.
(b) Basic humanness.
(c) Honor.
(d) God.

2. What was NOT one of the ways that progress towards integration was fought?
(a) House bombings.
(b) Mobs.
(c) Mail bombs.
(d) Economic retaliation.

3. ___________ integration became a new tool in the battle by those unwilling to allow total freedom and justice for all.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Token.
(c) Massive.
(d) Peaceful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The millions of dollars being spent on the ____________ could easily pay to care for the needs of the poor.

2. Rather than discouraging the Civil Rights march, the governor should have encouraged the state troopers to avoid _________.

3. ______________ in civil rights was responsible for this decline in civil rights being at the forefront of the public mind.

4. The United States had become an international power that was unable to enforce even _______________ in a Southern village.

5. To be a realistic ______________ requires the church and the Christians to fight against the idea of nuclear war and world annihilation.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to Dr. King, who needed to actively participate in creating a nation where civil rights were a reality for all people?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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