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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. Who claimed that the victims of the American military were often people of color?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) President Eisenhower.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

2. What was the publication date from Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined"?
(a) August 5, 1965.
(b) December 5, 1955.
(c) July 11, 1968.
(d) June 11, 1967.

3. According to Chapter 12:"Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," who was the great shaman of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
(b) Louis Farrakhan.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

4. Who published Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
(a) Viacom Inc.
(b) Harper Collins.
(c) Harper and Row.
(d) Random House.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the march during which Dr. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech?

2. When did W.E.B. DuBois die?

3. Despite opposition, what two universities did President John F. Kennedy authorize federal marshals to accompany black students to registration?

4. What was the name of the 37-year-old NAACP field secretary murdered on his front porch on June 12, 1963?

5. Why did the West fear the USSR?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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. 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.

5. 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"?

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

7. 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"?

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

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

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

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