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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. Where does Bevel stage protests?

2. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?

3. Where does King receive an offer to teach?

4. How did taxi drivers try to help out the Negroes boycotting the buses?

5. Who does Robert Kennedy telephone in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does King arrange to transport the Negroes to and from work?

2. What surprises King about the Crozer Theological Seminary?

3. How does King's Civil Rights work affect his preaching?

4. How did the city taxi drivers try to help out the local Negroes?

5. How does the governor of Montgomery react to students trying to get served at the state capitol building lunch counter?

6. How does King find the task of writing a book?

7. What dilemma did King's relationship with Betty pose?

8. Why is the phone call Robert Kennedy makes to a judge potentially dangerous to his career?

9. What does King put into motion with the SCLC in Chapter 6?

10. How did Rockefeller change the school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine King's upbringing and write 500 words about how his upbringing molded him into the strong and influential leader he became.

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Examine the way Branch uses other people in the story to express her ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger."

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it now considered so wrong to use?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

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