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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. King stipulated there was an opportunity to use massive nonviolent action as a means to escape national disaster and achieve what during the Poor People's Campaign?
(a) A new spirit of class and racial harmony.
(b) A new spirit of manhood and racial harmony.
(c) A new spirit of dignity and peace.
(d) A new spirit of cooperation and racial calm.

3. Why did King maintain that those who set bombs on 11 May 1963 had selected a night and time during which customers were leaving closing bars in a black neighborhood?
(a) To cause greatest disorder.
(b) To stir rioting.
(c) To achieve the most death and injury.
(d) To instigate most fear.

4. King indicated the war in Vietnam played havoc with what?
(a) The destiny of an entire generation.
(b) The destiny of the entire world.
(c) The destiny of all Vietnam.
(d) The destiny of all Southeast Asia.

5. On 18 March 1968, King spoke before which striking labor group in Memphis?
(a) Harvest workers.
(b) Sanitation workers.
(c) Industrial Assemblers Union.
(d) American Federation of Labor.

6. When did a Ku Klux Klan meeting take place relative to the bombs being having been set?
(a) Just prior to the bombings that night.
(b) One night before.
(c) Shortly following.
(d) Two nights before.

7. After he explained why he was responding to their letter, what was the first item King addressed?
(a) He related the events sequentially that led up to the demonstrations.
(b) The four basic steps required by any nonviolent campaign.
(c) Why he was in Birmingham and their view against "'outsiders coming in.'"
(d) Their deploration of Birmingham demonstrations, not the causes of them.

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

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

10. How many speeches did King give in Memphis in March, 1968, about aid to government employees and against antipoverty policies?
(a) Dozens.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 21.

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

12. King stated his life would not have been in vain if what?
(a) "If I spread love and peace in a determined fashion."
(b) "If I am able to bring peace to a world wreaked with war."
(c) "If I can do my duty as a Christian ought."
(d) "If I am genuine in spreading nonviolence and Christian faith."

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

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

15. 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 6 June 1964.
(c) On 16 May 1964.
(d) On 5 April 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did King identify as the three remaining steps in any nonviolent campaign once an assessment of whether injustices existed has been determined?

2. King noted that Mahatma Gandhi labored for many years without his people being independent, and he died from what?

3. King noted that one of life's great agonies is when we attempt to finish what?

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

5. When did King attend the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President Johnson?

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