View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people attended Dr. King's first anti-war demonstration?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) More than 5,000.

2. What did Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined" discuss?
(a) African Americans' need to vote.
(b) African Americans in the war.
(c) African American nationalism being embraced by the black community.
(d) African American men and their role in the family.

3. According to Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here," what did political leftists accuse Dr. King?
(a) Being too forward.
(b) Being too educated.
(c) Being too superior.
(d) Being too cautious.

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) Ella Fitzgerald.
(c) Jonathon Swift.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

5. Why did the West fear the USSR?
(a) Because of the use of communistic law.
(b) Because of the fear of the re-establishment of slavery.
(c) Because of the possible spread of communism throughout the world.
(d) Because of the influence of the USSR's leaders throughout the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What publication printed Dr. King's most historic and controversial address tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

2. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the powerless never experience?

3. 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?

4. What did President Eisenhower claim encouraged American military involvement around the globe?

5. What church was Ebenezer Baptist Church an outgrowth of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances surrounding King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

2. 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?

3. In King's speech "Black Power Defined," King declared that the "economic highway to power has few entry lanes for Negroes." How did he explain the meaning behind this statement?

4. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe Americans as "strange liberators" in "A Time to Break Silence"?

5. Why did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference make their motto "To save the soul of America"?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", what did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim was the creed of the Negro's self-affirmation?

10. 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"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,118 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample