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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. What work did Dr. King publish, according to Chapter 11 ("I Have A Dream"), when he was considered the "prophet of the hour"?
(a) "Why We Can't Wait."
(b) "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?"
(c) "I've Been to the Mountaintop."
(d) "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life."

2. 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) Jonathon Swift.
(b) Ella Fitzgerald.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Michael Schwerner.

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

4. When did W.E.B. DuBois die?
(a) August 27, 1963.
(b) June 24, 1957.
(c) October 18, 1964.
(d) June 11, 1964.

5. What church was Ebenezer Baptist Church an outgrowth of?
(a) Wheat Street Baptist Church.
(b) First Congressional Church.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) 16th Street Baptist Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what church did Dr. King deliver his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

2. What memorial was the background for Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech?

3. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the "powerful" never lose?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X declare America a "sick society"?

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