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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. What was the date of Dr. King's first national address?
2. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?
3. What became a pseudonym for the Civil Rights Movement?
4. When did Dr. King celebrate his thirty-first (31) birthday?
5. Why was Dr. King in jail while writing the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what two fronts must the African American work on during the period of social change?
2. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the successful precedents that showed that civil rights could be obtained peacefully?
3. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did many black men lose their self-respect?
4. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were the problems associated with the shift from rural to urban life for African Americans?
5. In Chapter 4: "My Trip To the Land of Gandhi," Martin Luther King, Jr., described his fascination for India. Why did King hold a fascination for India?
6. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what were second-class methods?
7. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the denial of the right to vote do to African Americans?
8. 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?
9. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did he think that white people thought blacks deserved (and enjoyed) second-class status?
10. What were the reasons that King's trip to India kept getting put off?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Martin Luther King, Jr.. was influenced by Mohandas Gandhi. In what ways did Gandhi directly influence Dr. King and the way he choose to fight for civil rights?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Black Consciousness Movement. What is the Black Consciousness Movement? What does the movement embody? Where are the necessary dimensions for the movement to succeed?
Essay Topic 3
Some may come to misunderstand the collaboration of a movement that pursues inclusion (the Civil Rights Movement) while celebrating individuality of a race (The Black Power Movement). Examine how these two "movements" can live in harmony even though they, by definition, are very different. Discuss the different attributes of each movement and their similarities. How do their differences speak to their ability to be cohesive?
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