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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 is the name of one of the African American leaders that argued for the African American need for self-respect and self-help?
2. Where did Dr. King speak publicly in an anti-war demonstration?
3. Where did Dr. King deliver his last SCLC presidential address?
4. What was the true goal of the Black Power Movement?
5. On what date was the church bombed that killed the little girls where Dr. King delivered the funeral sermon?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the reasoning behind King's speech on March 25, 1967?
2. 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"?
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. Why did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference make their motto "To save the soul of America"?
5. What prompted the Nobel Peace Prize committee to search for the "greatest apostle of peace" in 1964?
6. What did Martin Luther King, Jr., claim needed to be done to begin America's extraction from the war in Vietnam?
7. Describe the circumstances surrounding King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
8. In "A Time to Break Silence," what did King claim was the irony behind the war in Vietnam?
9. According to the summary in Chapter 19: "The Drum Major Instinct," what was the importance of the black church in the African American culture?
10. In King's speech "Black Power Defined," King declared that the "economic highway to power has few entry lanes for Negroes." How did he explain the meaning behind this statement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Dr. King was adamant about fighting for civil rights in a non-violent way. On the other hand, Robert Williams (Chapter 6; local president of the NAACP) choose violence as the way to freedom. Compare and contrast the non-violent and violent acts and their ability to work/or not towards the cause.
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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