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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 publication printed Dr. King's most historic and controversial address tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?
(a) Negro History Bulletin.
(b) Freedomways.
(c) Worldview.
(d) Ebony 21.

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

3. In 1964, what party was refused a seat by the Democratic National Convention?
(a) African American Republican Party.
(b) Democratic Party Representing Minorities of America.
(c) Mississippi Freedom Party.
(d) Whigs.

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

5. What national convention did Reverend A.D. Williams, Martin Luther King, Sr.'s, maternal grandfather, found?
(a) National Pastoral Convention.
(b) National African American Convention.
(c) National Religious Convention.
(d) National Baptist Convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the footnotes on Chapter 20: "I See the Promise Land," what position did Judge Hooks hold in the NAACP?

2. What year did Martin Luther King, Sr., die?

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

4. When did W.E.B. DuBois die?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In King's speech "Black Power Defined," King declared that the "economic highway to power has few entry lanes for Negroes." How did he explain the meaning behind this statement?

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

5. 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"?

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 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?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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