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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. Where did Dr. King accept his Nobel Peace Prize?
(a) Oslo, Norway.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Halmstad, Sweden.
(d) Madrid, Spain.

2. What was the true goal of the Black Power Movement?
(a) To create a support circle to fight against the KKK.
(b) For African Americans to be more conscious of their history and culture.
(c) For African Americans to fight for their freedoms.
(d) To help African Americans become more "white."

3. Where did Dr. King deliver his last SCLC presidential address?
(a) 16th Street Baptist Church.
(b) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(c) Congressional Baptist Church.
(d) First Baptist Church.

4. According to the footnotes on Chapter 20: "I See the Promise Land," what position did Judge Hooks hold in the NAACP?
(a) Regional Director.
(b) Vice-President.
(c) Executive Director.
(d) National Director.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced Dr. King for his last and final sermon?

2. According to Chapter 20: "I See the Promised Land," what did Dr. King have a deep sense of?

3. What was Stokely Carmichael's slogan in gaining the presidency of the SNCC on May 16, 1966?

4. In what city did Dr. King deliver his last sermon?

5. Where did Dr. King deliver his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What was the reasoning behind King's speech on March 25, 1967?

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

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

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

7. What did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim to be ironic about America's tension with the National Liberation Front?

8. 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"?

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

10. According to King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", what is the only answer to mankind's problems?

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