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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 longs for a day when his children would be judged on the content of of their ___________, not on the color of their skin.

2. Dr. King believed that many people were _____________ through an important revolution.

3. _________-minded people are realistic, decisive, astute, and firm of purpose, according to Dr. King's observations.

4. ____________ comes from the knowledge that people are interdependent across the world.

5. Dr. King argued that the war in Vietnam was _________ and that it hurt African Americans more than others in the United States.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Dr. King accuse American presidents of in terms of their willingness to participate in the human rights movement?

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

4. How could the marchers in the march from Selma to Montgomery be described at this point?

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 feel about the impact of nonviolence on white supremacists, though Malcolm X did not necessarily agree?

7. What did Dr. King believe the reason for his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize had to be?

8. What movement did Dr. King use as a comparison to the current Civil Rights movement society was facing?

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

10. Why were Dr. King and his wife, Coretta, not subject to segregation much in their lives before the movement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nonviolence arouses a sense of shame and builds reconciliation and redemption in society.

Part 1: Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think that shame leads to reconciliation in other situations? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think shame could be introduced without the use of nonviolence? Or can't it?

Essay Topic 2

In today's world, new civil rights movements are springing up, most recently the civil rights movement for homosexuals.

Part 1: Do you think the civil rights movement that Dr. King helped support has been won? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think that civil rights movements can ever be 100% successful? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think the gay rights movement has used tactics that Dr. King did? Why or why not?

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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