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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?

2. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?

3. What movement involved civil rights activists who sought to challenge religious segregation?

4. When associated with the Civil Rights Movement, what did demonstrators consider their arrests?

5. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the denial of the right to vote do to African Americans?

2. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," how are the extreme race relations of the South explained?

3. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," how did the African American's awareness of the struggle for freedom in a worldwide realm help to account for a new sense of dignity?

4. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were some of the factors that led to a new sense of self-respect on the part of the African American?

5. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were second-class methods?

6. What happened on December 5, 1955?

7. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why is racial injustice a national, and not a sectional, problem?

8. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why had some African Americans become cynical and disillusioned?

9. What were the reasons that King's trip to India kept getting put off?

10. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did he think that white people thought blacks deserved (and enjoyed) second-class status?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the "Drum Major Instinct." What is the "Drum Major Instinct"? How did it develop? Upon what is it based ? What is the "Drum Major Instinct's" importance to the Civil Rights Movement? Why did Dr. King find it necessary to design a sermon around the "Drum Major Instinct"?

Essay Topic 2

Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted all African Americans to be able to sing "America" (My Country 'tis of Thee) and have it be true for them in the literal sense. (From Chapter 2: "Facing the Challenge of a New Age") According to Martin Luther King, Jr., what needed to happen for African Americans to be able to sing "America" and hold it true in their hearts?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the sermons/speeches used for I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World. Discuss the importance of the sermon/speech's inclusion. Why is it important to have this speech/sermon serving as part of the whole? Why did you choose this sermon/speech as the most important of the text?

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