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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. Dr. King longs for a day when his children would be judged on the content of of their ___________, not on the color of their skin.
(a) Work.
(b) Truth.
(c) Bank account.
(d) Character.

3. A rebirth of _____________ societies threatened to destroy both labor unions and the opportunity for African Americans to fully integrate.
(a) Left-wing.
(b) Ultra-right wing.
(c) Neo-conservative.
(d) Progressive.

4. Many considered the first phase of the ________ protest to be over and to be a failure, a movement to be viewed with suspicion.
(a) Peace.
(b) Power.
(c) Race.
(d) Black Power.

5. To Dr. King, nonviolent action on a planetary scale was no longer an option, but an imperative for the prevention of ___________.
(a) Civil war.
(b) World War Three.
(c) Government coups.
(d) Nuclear annihilation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. King addressed the basic human desire to find _______________ and importance in some way.

2. Each person on earth, according to Dr. King, is a child of God and has the right to expect _____________.

3. The nonviolent actions were intended to bring attention to the ______________ affecting the African American population.

4. Dr. King addressed in his last conversation the confusion of ________, which was leading to a crisis in the nation.

5. The Supreme Court struck down the idea of _____________ in May of 1954.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an important part of African American financial and economic power at the time?

2. What did Dr. King challenge his listeners to do during this speech?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why was the right to vote for African Americans feared by racist Southern leaders, according to Dr. King?

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

10. What were the three revolutions that Dr. King saw happening around him, revolutions that people were sleeping through?

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