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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 magazine did Dr. King's article from Chapter 17: "Black Power Defined" appear in?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) Harper's Review.
(d) New York Times Magazine.

2. Who began to question President Eisenhower's commitment to more troops in Vietnam?
(a) People in the military.
(b) People of conscience.
(c) People outside the United States.
(d) People of color.

3. What was the name of the 37-year-old NAACP field secretary murdered on his front porch on June 12, 1963?
(a) Medgar Evans.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) William Pickens.
(d) Robert Bagnall.

4. 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) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Malcolm X.

5. Who was sworn into the presidency following the assassination of JFK?
(a) Gerald R. Ford.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Richard M. Nixon.
(d) Lyndon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dr. King when he was assassinated?

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

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

4. What years did Frederick Douglas live?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," what can African Americans never be satisfied with?

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

3. In 1967, as summarized in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," Martin Luther King, Jr., felt caught between two distinct groups for very different reasons. Who did King feel caught between and why?

4. 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"?

5. According to the summary in Chapter 19: "The Drum Major Instinct," what was the importance of the black church in the African American culture?

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

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," who was the most "vicious modern dictator"?

9. 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?

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

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