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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did King respond to President Kennedy's having called Coretta over Easter weekend?
(a) Via telegram.
(b) Via telephone.
(c) Via postcard.
(d) Via letter.

2. How many of his attorneys were allowed to visit King on Easter Sunday afternoon?
(a) 1.
(b) None.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

4. When did King initially call for a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam?
(a) 10 January 1966.
(b) 12 August 1965.
(c) 16 February 1965.
(d) 21 May 1966.

5. When did the leader of SNCC ignite controversy when he used the Black Power slogan?
(a) On 14 July 1966.
(b) On 12 August 1966.
(c) On 16 June 1966.
(d) On 10 September 1966.

6. On what day was Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by Klan members as she drove marchers back from a 4-day march from Selma to Montgomery?
(a) 15 March 1965.
(b) 20 March 1965.
(c) 25 March 1965.
(d) 30 March 1965.

7. In the chapter about the Nobel Prize, King described his view of airline personnel and ranked which members as foremost?
(a) The flight attendants.
(b) The co-pilots.
(c) The pilots.
(d) The ground crew.

8. When did King attend the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President Johnson?
(a) 24 July 1964.
(b) 2 June 1964.
(c) 2 July 1964.
(d) 4 July 1964.

9. When was NAACP leader Medgar Evans assassinated?
(a) 12 May 1963.
(b) 12 March 1963.
(c) 12 June 1963.
(d) 12 April 1963.

10. Where was a plot by a guerrilla group on King's life discovered during the summer of 1964?
(a) In Florida.
(b) In Alabama.
(c) In Georgia.
(d) In Mississippi.

11. The movement entered what area of Los Angeles which was occupied by the National Guard?
(a) Watts.
(b) Wilshire.
(c) Westside.
(d) Hollywood.

12. King noted that one of life's great agonies is when we attempt to finish what?
(a) That which will take until time's end.
(b) That which is unfinishable.
(c) That which is yet but a dream.
(d) That which is a tremendous goal.

13. King sought help from President Kennedy who met civil rights leaders on what date and convinced them something good would occur?
(a) 25 September 1963.
(b) 3 October 1963.
(c) 19 September 1963.
(d) 30 September 1963.

14. President Kennedy called Coretta Scott King and expressed concern for her husband on what date?
(a) 15 April 1963.
(b) 13 April 1963.
(c) 14 April 1963.
(d) 12 April 1963.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What valediction did King use to conclude his letter?

2. King wanted President Johnson to continue these programs, but President Johnson was distracted by the conflict in Vietnam.

3. A dynamite blast killed how many young black girls in Sunday school at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on 15 September 1963?

4. What did King organize with Chicago's Mayor R. Daley and others on 26 August 1967?

5. When Albert Boutwell won a runoff election for mayor on 2 April 1963 against Birmingham Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, what did Connor do?

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