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

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

3. According to Chapter 16 "A Time To Break Silence," who did the United States find it "easier to engage in warfare" as opposed to the Soviet Union?
(a) People of color.
(b) The French.
(c) The citizens of the U.S.
(d) The Koreans.

4. On what date was the church bombed that killed the little girls where Dr. King delivered the funeral sermon?
(a) October 17, 1960.
(b) June 17, 1956.
(c) December 5, 1955.
(d) September 15, 1963.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. King deliver his last SCLC presidential address?

2. What was the name of the war primarily between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

3. When did Dr. King speak publicly in an anti-war demonstration?

4. Who published Dr. King's book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

5. When did Dr. King deliver his last SCLC presidential address?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim needed to be done to begin America's extraction from the war in Vietnam?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

9. Why did political rightists, described in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," claim that Martin Luther King, Jr., was unpatriotic?

10. 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?

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