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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. Whose administration war policies did Dr. King attack when he delivered his most historic and controversial statement tying the war and the Civil Rights Movement together?

2. What was the name of the war primarily between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

3. Who did Dr. King go to help in Memphis, Tennessee, during a strike against unfair labor practices?

4. What was the broad strategy of the Black Power Movement?

5. What New York governor ordered the National Guard to restore order to Rochester after riots broke out on July 25, 1964?

Short Essay Questions

1. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated five dreams during his "I Have A Dream" speech. What were three of his "dreams"?

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 "Where Do We Go From Here?", why did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim that the Negro had been "confined to the life of voicelessness and powerlessness"?

4. 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?

5. What prompted the Nobel Peace Prize committee to search for the "greatest apostle of peace" in 1964?

6. What were the circumstances that surrounded King's "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"?

7. In King's speech "Where Do We Go From Here?," what did King mean by "as long as a mind is enslaved, the body can never be free"?

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

9. 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?

10. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe Americans as "strange liberators" in "A Time to Break Silence"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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