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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. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the "powerful" never lose?
(a) Chances.
(b) War.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Opportunities.

2. According to Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here," what "spawned" the Cold War?
(a) Mild disagreements.
(b) Mutual fear and hostility.
(c) Need for power.
(d) Hatred.

3. Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, what were African Americans still denied in some parts of the South?
(a) Holding government office.
(b) Owning businesses.
(c) Voting.
(d) Attending school.

4. What is the name of one of the African American leaders that argued for the African American need for self-respect and self-help?
(a) Michael Schwerner.
(b) Marcus Garvey.
(c) Ella Fitzgerald.
(d) Jonathon Swift.

5. What year was the atom bombed dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 16 "A Time To Break Silence," who did the United States find it "easier to engage in warfare" as opposed to the Soviet Union?

2. According to Chapter 12:"Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," who was the great shaman of the Nation of Islam?

3. In what year was Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community published?

4. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what is the "nettlesome task of Negros" today?

5. What was the true goal of the Black Power Movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the circumstances that surrounded King's "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"?

2. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", why did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim that the Negro had been "confined to the life of voicelessness and powerlessness"?

3. Why did political rightists, described in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," claim that Martin Luther King, Jr., was unpatriotic?

4. In 1967, as summarized in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," Martin Luther King, Jr., felt caught between two distinct groups for very different reasons. Who did King feel caught between and why?

5. During the delivery of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964, he declared some "refusals." What were the two refusals that King put forth during his speech?

6. In his speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", Martin Luther King, Jr. stated that the United States mishandled money in regard to its own people. According to King, how did the United States misappropriate funds?

7. During the delivery of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964, what were three of the eight "beliefs" King spoke of?

8. What did King, in his speech "A Time to Break Silence," claim the Vietnamese watched Americans do during the Vietnam War?

9. In "A Time to Break Silence," what did King claim was the irony behind the war in Vietnam?

10. According to the summary in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?", what were the circumstances that surrounded King's last and most radical address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference presidential address?

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