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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did King enter Boston University's School of Theology?
(a) 13 September 1953.
(b) 13 September 1952.
(c) 13 September 1951.
(d) 13 September 1950.

2. How long did King have to prepare what he considered the most important speech of his life?
(a) 1 day.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 20 minutes.

3. What did King describe as the age-old problem faced by his mother and all black parents in America?
(a) Explaining segregation, discrimination to a small child.
(b) Explaining racial hatred to a small child.
(c) Explaining segregation to a teenager.
(d) Explaining racial discrimination to a small child.

4. King had been desirous of what for some years prior to his graduation from Crozer Seminary?
(a) Lecturing about his views around the nation.
(b) Providing social assistance to the needy.
(c) Counseling youths in a squalid urban slum.
(d) Teaching in a religious school, college.

5. In the summer of 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planned a campaign to enforce what?
(a) Black voting rights.
(b) Revocation of segregation laws.
(c) Black property rights.
(d) Black employment rights.

6. When did King and other civil rights leaders meet with Eisenhower?
(a) 23 June 1958.
(b) 23 June 1957.
(c) 23 August 1958.
(d) 23 August 1957.

7. What was it King admired most about his father?
(a) Genuine Christian character.
(b) Genuine family commitment.
(c) Complete honesty.
(d) Total religious devotion.

8. What particularly interested Coretta during the trip to India?
(a) Government, women, cuisine.
(b) Museums, animals, schools.
(c) Women, museums, cuisine.
(d) Women, history, government of India.

9. King noted he had come to recognize the true meaning of what phrase through Coretta?
(a) "A wife can either make or break a husband."
(b) "A wife determines whether or not a husband is a success."
(c) "A wife is the foundation which supports a husband."
(d) "The spine of a husband is his wife."

10. What factors regarding King's parents' marriage had a great impact on his religious attitudes?
(a) They did not argue or have a great falling out.
(b) They read the Bible aloud daily.
(c) They were active in their church.
(d) They held a family prayer circle daily.

11. King was initially exposed to what position of Dr. A.J. Muste that deeply moved but did not convince him?
(a) Pacifist.
(b) Jihad.
(c) Leninist.
(d) Muslim.

12. What shackles did King describe as being removed from his body during his first two college years?
(a) Impropriety.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Detestation.
(d) Fundamentalism.

13. How old was King when he participated in an oratorical contest in Dublin, Georgia?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 14 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

14. In a paper submitted at Crozer Seminary, King indicated he had nearly despaired over _______'s power to resolve social problems.
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Religion.

15. Just prior to Brightman's death, King initiated his study of which philosopher with him?
(a) Luther.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Whitefield.
(d) Quaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Kings able to make their trip to India?

2. King said the birth of this new African nation renewed his conviction in what?

3. King indicated that what the world needed was a group of women and men willing to do what?

4. How was King attacked in Harlem in 1958?

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare segregation laws unconstitutional?

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