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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. Which writer does Robert Kennedy enlist the help of?

2. What takes place in October of 1962?

3. What does Kennedy want to register in the South?

4. What is Sam Block arrested for?

5. Who do demonstrators kill outside the Lyceum?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Albany Movement try to recover its momentum in this chapter?

2. What problems does Moses have in Mississippi?

3. How does the city respond to the Albany Movement's manifesto?

4. How does Kennedy create the Voter Education Project?

5. Why is the Washington march so important to the movement?

6. How do Birmingham's white businessmen respond to the riots?

7. How did Megdar Evans die?

8. How does Hoover keep an eye on King in this chapter?

9. Why does King snub Kennedy?

10. How do the Freedom Riders enrage the Albany sheriff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine racism in America. How much has it changed since the Civil Rights Movement? How much do the students think Martin Luther King was responsible for that change? In what forms does racism still exist in America today?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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