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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. Black young men were fighting and dying in wars for ____________ they could not get when they were back home.
(a) Money.
(b) Freedoms.
(c) Respect.
(d) Truth.

2. From what class were Dr. King and his wife, which allowed them to be less exposed to segregation in the North?
(a) Middle.
(b) Lower.
(c) Upper.
(d) Teaching.

3. ____________ resulted from indifference of the southern racists and the continued exploitation of segregation.
(a) Factories.
(b) Bad schools.
(c) Voting rules.
(d) Ghettos.

4. The greatest difficulty that African American leaders faced was that they did not want to be equated with the white ___________ that used boycotts to hurt others.
(a) Governments.
(b) Supremacists.
(c) Citizen committees.
(d) Leaders.

5. The participation of African Americans in __________ would prove to be their economic power in society.
(a) Unions.
(b) The fields.
(c) The Army.
(d) The factories.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effort to gain freedom and justice meeting physical force with __________ force was of greater value, according to Dr. King.

2. The right to _____________ was feared by racist Southern leaders as a powerful tool for change.

3. What was the name of Dr. King's wife, as told to readers in his autobiography of sorts?

4. Nonviolent ___________ was planned to continue until a policy of one man, one vote, and one vote for every man existed.

5. ___________ is positive and necessary as a call to develop political and economical goals.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dr. King feel the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement were?

2. What happened to the North, even as the South and its African American population began to gain respect?

3. What did Dr. King think would happen in society as a result of integration, according to his last conversation?

4. Who did Dr. King think that the four murdered girls spoke to in their deaths?

5. How did the Vietnam War hurt African American men more, according to the thoughts of Dr. King?

6. What were Dr. King's main concerns about the Vietnam War when it was fought?

7. What did Dr. King feel would help an African American be lifted to the same level as the rest of America?

8. What did Dr. King want his children to be judged based on, as opposed to the color of their skin?

9. What did Dr. King feel about the impact of nonviolence on white supremacists, though Malcolm X did not necessarily agree?

10. What is the basic human desire that every person has at some time and in some way?

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