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

2. ___________ integration became a new tool in the battle by those unwilling to allow total freedom and justice for all.

3. ____________ is a means of resisting and one that requires followers to seek friendship and understanding of opponents.

4. What is NOT one of the things that Dr. King endured during his time in the Civil Rights movement?

5. Dr. King fought against the stories that African Americans sought to achieve freedom through the use of __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does nonviolence, as a means of resisting, require that those who follow this path do?

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

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

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

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

6. What were the four main forces which enabled the problems of partial integration to be overcome?

7. What became a new tool in the battle for those unwilling to allow total freedom and justice for all?

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

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

10. What were some of the forms of persecution that Dr. King endured from the time he began to fight for black rights?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The right to vote was an important right to secure for the African American.

Part 1: Why do you think the right to vote was so important to secure?

Part 2: What do you think about your right to vote? Do you think about it at all?

Part 3: How do you think the country might be different if certain groups will still unable to vote because of race, gender, or religion?

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

People, according to the Declaration of Independence, have a right to life, liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.

Part 1: Do you think that this statement of the Declaration of Independence meant to include every single person? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think that the founders of the Declaration of Independence would support King's movement? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you agree that everyone should have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Why or why not?

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