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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 footnotes on Chapter 20: "I See the Promise Land," who is Judge Hooks?
(a) Dr. Arthur Hooks.
(b) Reverend Thomas Hooks.
(c) Reverend Dr. Benjamin Hooks.
(d) Dr. Terrance Hooks.

2. What quote from a civil rights hymn did President Johnson quote before a joint session of Congress in 1965?
(a) "We shall overcome!"
(b) "Keep your eyes on the prize!"
(c) "We shall not be moved!"
(d) "Oh freedom!"

3. When did the demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, reach their worst problems?
(a) June 1 and 4, 1968.
(b) March 1 and 4, 1966.
(c) February 1 and 4, 1965.
(d) April 1 and 4, 1967.

4. What was the ethnicity of the people who attended the anti-war demonstration that Dr. King led?
(a) White only.
(b) Black and white.
(c) Hispanic, black, and white.
(d) Black only.

5. In what city did Dr. King deliver his last sermon?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Dr. King deliver his last, and greatest, sermon?

3. What street did Dr. King live on while growing up and while his father was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church?

4. How many people attended Dr. King's first anti-war demonstration?

5. What year was the atom bombed dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What prompted the Nobel Peace Prize committee to search for the "greatest apostle of peace" in 1964?

3. 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?

4. According to King's speech "A Time to Break Silence," who was the most "vicious modern dictator"?

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

6. According to King's speech "A Time to Break Silence," what change did America make in effort to "quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused"?

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. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," who should be able to allow freedom to ring? Who did King include when he named the groups that should be allowed to "let freedom ring"?

9. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?," what did King mean by "as long as a mind is enslaved, the body can never be free"?

10. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," the song "America" needed to be sung, and believed, by all that sang it. Name three things that King wanted freedom to ring from.

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