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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 do the Alabama police charge King with?

2. What did Mike King's father do for a living?

3. What does the Ku Klux Klan burn in front of John's lawn?

4. What does Jo Ann Robinson teach at Alabama?

5. What does Robinson's letter call to boycott?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the First Baptist Church of Montgomery and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church form?

3. How do sit-ins start to become popular across the country?

4. How did Reverend Williams benefit from the education provided at Morehouse College?

5. What happens to the Freedom Rider's Greyhound bus in Chapter 11?

6. How does King disappoint his father in this chapter?

7. Why did the girl decide not to take the bus company to the courts?

8. How did the movie theaters in Nashville react to people protesting outside?

9. What does Clayton Powell threaten to do if King does not call off plans to picket the Democratic convention?

10. How does King change Dexter church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following people and outline his influence on Martin Luther King's life and ideas.

1) Gandhi

2) Vernon Johns

3) President Kennedy

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

Identify the main themes of the book. Why do you think these themes are so important to the book? How does Branch use character and setting to express his themes?

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