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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King was arrested on 12 April 1963 for violation of an injunction against protesting by which Court?
(a) The state's Circuit Court.
(b) The County Court.
(c) The Municipal Court.
(d) The state's Supreme Court.

2. King wanted to learn from what Scandinavian tradition?
(a) Socialistic communism.
(b) Democratic socialism.
(c) Socialistic capitalism.
(d) Democratic republicanism.

3. On which television program on the evening of 29 May 1966 did King urge an end to the bombing in Vietnam?
(a) CBS News with Walter Cronkite.
(b) The Johnny Carson Show.
(c) Face the Nation.
(d) The Huntley-Brinkley Report.

4. Where did King deliver his initial public antiwar speech on 4 April 1967?
(a) At the Statue of Liberty, New York.
(b) At the Dexter Baptist Church, Montgomery.
(c) At the Riverside Church, New York.
(d) At the Lincoln Memorial, Washington.

5. King said one had to get one's heart right with God, and while not having attained the highest peak or realized all one's dreams, he did what?
(a) "Approached the goal honestly."
(b) "Was committed."
(c) "Achieved some success."
(d) "Tried."

6. King wanted President Johnson to continue these programs, but President Johnson was distracted by the conflict in Vietnam.
(a) The Successfull Society programs.
(b) The Fair Society programs.
(c) The Progressive Society programs.
(d) The Great Society programs.

7. What speech did King deliver on the morning of 28 August 1963?
(a) "I Believe in Dreams."
(b) "I Trust in Dreams."
(c) "I Pursue My Dreams."
(d) "I have a Dream."

8. What did the violence in Los Angeles achieve?
(a) The escalation of white empathy.
(b) The hardening of white resistance.
(c) Heightened white compassion.
(d) An increase in white understanding.

9. Following a press conference at the U.S. Senate, when was the only encounter King had with Malcolm X?
(a) On 26 March 1964.
(b) On 5 April 1964.
(c) On 16 May 1964.
(d) On 6 June 1964.

10. The 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace was received by King, but whom did he feel truly deserved the award?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Those killed for the Civil Rights movement.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) The Civil Rights movement.

11. King argued that the members of which religious faith must be committed to providing aid to the poor?
(a) All faiths.
(b) Catholics.
(c) All faiths and agnostics.
(d) Christians.

12. King noted that the 1964 election afforded the civil rights, labor, religious, and intellectual leaders alliance what within a year?
(a) Their fourth major victory.
(b) Their third major victory.
(c) Their first major victory.
(d) Their second major victory.

13. King believed that the poor in Los Angeles saw the riots as their only means of doing what?
(a) Punishing authorities.
(b) Achieving retribution.
(c) Getting noticed.
(d) Gaining equitable goods.

14. King saw the rioting in Los Angeles as having arisen from what?
(a) From the hopelessness felt by many regarding their economic destitution.
(b) From disheartenment culminating in masses due to brutal police tactics.
(c) From desperation many endure concerning race-related discrimination.
(d) From despair over poverty which was inextricably linked with racial justice.

15. How many civil rights workers were reported missing following their arrests in June, 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. King stipulated he "deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems" for how long?

2. On 26 July 1965 King led a march on Chicago City Hall and spoke before a rally sponsored by which organization?

3. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?

4. In his letter to the clergy, King described Birmingham as likely the most thoroughly segregated city where?

5. Where was the Black Power slogan born?

(see the answer keys)

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