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

2. Why did the West fear the USSR?
(a) Because of the use of communistic law.
(b) Because of the influence of the USSR's leaders throughout the world.
(c) Because of the possible spread of communism throughout the world.
(d) Because of the fear of the re-establishment of slavery.

3. When did Dr. King deliver his last, and greatest, sermon?
(a) May 3, 1968.
(b) March 3, 1968.
(c) April 3, 1968.
(d) April 5, 1968.

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

5. 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) National Director.
(c) Vice-President.
(d) Executive Director.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the chapter "Black Power Defined," what do the powerless never experience?

3. What quote from a civil rights hymn did President Johnson quote before a joint session of Congress in 1965?

4. On what date were excerpts from the sermon from Chapter 19: "The Drum Major Instinct" played for Dr. King's nationally televised funeral service?

5. What percentage of African Americans registered in Alabama voted in Alabama's Democratic Primary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," the song "America" needed to be sung, and believed, by all that sang it. Name three things that King wanted freedom to ring from.

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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"?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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