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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 New York governor ordered the National Guard to restore order to Rochester after riots broke out on July 25, 1964?
2. What must people of oppression accumulate to realize deliverance?
3. What year was the atom bombed dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
4. What year was considered a momentous year in American history and in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
5. According to Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here," what "spawned" the Cold War?
Short Essay Questions
1. In his speech "Where Do We Go From Here?", Martin Luther King, Jr. stated that the United States mishandled money in regard to its own people. According to King, how did the United States misappropriate funds?
2. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe Americans as "strange liberators" in "A Time to Break Silence"?
3. 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?
4. Why did political rightists, described in the introduction of Chapter 18: "Where Do We Go From Here?," claim that Martin Luther King, Jr., was unpatriotic?
5. According to the summary in Chapter 19: "The Drum Major Instinct," what was the importance of the black church in the African American culture?
6. Describe the circumstances surrounding King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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. During the delivery of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964, what were three of the eight "beliefs" King spoke of?
9. According to King's speech "I Have A Dream," the song "America" needed to be sung, and believed, by all that sang it. Name three things that King wanted freedom to ring from.
10. What prompted the Nobel Peace Prize committee to search for the "greatest apostle of peace" in 1964?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many of the violent acts of the Civil Rights Movement were described without much detail. Explain why the specific details of these acts were left out of the book. Why do these omissions support the overall theme of "I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World"? How would the inclusion of the details take away from the power of the novel?
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
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?
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