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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 did President Eisenhower claim encouraged American military involvement around the globe?
(a) A "military that cared about the nation."
(b) A "military financed by the people."
(c) A "military-industrial complex."
(d) A "military formed by the different."

2. What year was the Ebenezer Baptist church formed?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1936.

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

4. What year did Martin Luther King, Sr., die?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1970.

5. What was found on a farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964?
(a) Anti-equality propaganda in the form of a barn painting.
(b) Three dead bodies of civil rights workers.
(c) An unfinished speech written by Dr. King.
(d) A lynched black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the broad strategy of the Black Power Movement?

2. According to Chapter 12:"Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," who was the great shaman of the Nation of Islam?

3. When did the demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, reach their worst problems?

4. On what date was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated five dreams during his "I Have A Dream" speech. What were three of his "dreams"?

3. 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?

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. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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"?

8. According the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?", what happened in the United States during the Cold War to upset the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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

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