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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. King saw the injustice and civil rights as an attack on __________ when he was growing up around it.

2. Dr. King believed that if the president had strong enough ___________ courage that problems could be solved.

3. A final element in the new sense of dignity for the people was the knowledge that there was a _______________ struggle for freedom and equity.

4. In what city was the bus strike during the time of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement?

5. What crisis dwarfed the issues of civil rights in 1962, according to Dr. King?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. want to stress that nonviolence is NOT for?

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

5. What did the finding of a personal God help Dr. King to do during his years fighting for Civil Rights?

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

7. What did the increased economic status of the African American now allow them to do?

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

9. What did the men in the Freedom March do as a result of their commitment to be nonviolent?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dr. King discusses time and time again that winning over the opposition needs to happen with the weapon of love.

Part 1: Do you think love can ever be a weapon? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think it's possible for two opposing sides to love each other? Why or why not?

Part 3: Why do you think Dr. King believes that love will be the thing that helps the movement succeed?

Essay Topic 2

Groups like the Ku Klux Klan began to form in order to oppose the rights of African Americans.

Part 1: Why do you think hate groups spring up in society?

Part 2: Do you think that hate groups have as much a right to freedom of speech as anyone else? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think hate groups, like the KKK, should be handled?

Essay Topic 3

Dr. King makes the point that nonviolence is not something for cowards.

Part 1: What do you think Dr. King means by this statement that nonviolence is not for cowards?

Part 2: Do you agree that nonviolence is not for cowards? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think a coward could be a part of a nonviolent movement? Why or why not?

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