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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 president announced the use of federal troops to escort nine children to high school in Arkansas?

2. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?

3. Dr. King wanted to make sure that advocates of Black Consciousness did not associate racial pride with what?

4. What did the assailant ask Dr. King right before his assault on September 20, 1958?

5. What did Dr. King plead with Americans not to default upon during his "I Have A Dream" speech?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the three reasons that blacks gave when asked why they did not expect the Montgomery Bus Boycott to succeed?

3. 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?

4. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the march demonstrate to him?

5. What happened on December 5, 1955?

6. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why did the young blacks need to begin to look at their future in a different light?

7. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would have happened in the United States if the country were to gain three million "southern Negro" votes?

8. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would "this generation" not take?

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

10. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did many black men lose their self-respect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" while serving a sentence for participating in a civil rights demonstration. Discuss the importance of his actual writing from jail. What did this act prove to those involved in the civil rights act? Did this letter help to show his determination or did it hinder his part in the movement?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of the location of the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, involvement. Would Martin Luther King, Jr., been as involved in the movement if it was not central to his community? Why do you believe this?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the importance of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and their association with the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. How did each action affect the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?

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