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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. In what city does King gather thousands of dollars of donations?

2. Whose house did King go to after a rally in Los Angeles?

3. Where does Anderson call a meeting for Albany Movement supporters?

4. What have the authorities closed in Birmingham?

5. What did the police bring out when they decided the hoses were not enough?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kennedy create the Voter Education Project?

2. What changes does Megdar Evans try to implement in Jackson, Mississippi?

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

4. Why did King write letters from the Birmingham Jail?

5. What deal does King make with Robert Kennedy in this chapter?

6. How does Moses react to the sheriff attacking him in Chapter 13?

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

8. What is the Albany Movement?

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

10. Why did a hitman prove to be an embarrassment to the government?

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

Why was it the right time to boycott the buses? How did the black community spread the word that they were boycotting the buses? How did the media respond to the bus boycott?

Essay Topic 3

Why did President Kennedy represent great hope for Afro-Americans? How did his death affect the Afro-American community? How do you think things would have been different if President Kennedy had lived?

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