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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 would have happened if African American people refused to give up their seats to a white person?

2. Dr. King asked people around him to pray for peace and justice in the world as the Civil Rights movement was a __________ movement as well.

3. Economic growth through industrialization increases the purchasing power of the ________________.

4. The Montgomery _________ surprised many African Americans when it happened, helping to encourage more.

5. From the time of the founding of the country, _______________ of the peoples had existed.

Short Essay Questions

1. What would the Executive Order be able to do for the Civil Rights movement, according to Dr. King?

2. What happened as a result of the Montgomery boycott which surprised a lot of African Americans?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. As opposed to nonviolence, what did the protesters first see their actions as when they were first beginning?

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

Stereotypes seem to help to keep racism in place, but when they are struck down, then change can happen.

Part 1: Why do you think people have stereotypes of other groups?

Part 2: Do you think that you stereotype people before you get to know them? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think you are stereotyped today? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Dr. King brings up the idea that there are just laws and unjust laws which may or may not be obeyed.

Part 1: How would you define the idea of a just law? Why?

Part 2: How would you define the idea of an unjust law? Why?

Part 3: Do you think a person has the right to decide which laws are okay to follow and each are not? Why or why not?

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