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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King spoke at the founding conference of what organization on 15 April 1960?
(a) The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
(b) The Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO).
(c) The Alabama Council on Human Relations (ACHR).
(d) The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

2. What point did King stress to soon to be graduating students at a march on 18 April 1959?
(a) "Avocation for civil rights is more critical than one's vocation."
(b) "Be a fighter for civil rights in a nonviolent manner."
(c) "Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights."
(d) "Nonviolence is important, but attaining civil liberties is more so."

3. Who was the Governor of Arkansas when federal troops were called in to protect students at Central High School in Little Rock?
(a) Orval Faubus.
(b) Dobie Gillis.
(c) Orval Tessier.
(d) George Wallace.

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

5. It was primarily under Edgar S. Brightman and L. Harold DeWolf that King studied what?
(a) Christian theology.
(b) Calvinistic philosophy.
(c) Personalistic philosophy.
(d) Socialistic philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was King ready to enter the ministry?

2. What was the topic of King's trial sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. King viewed preaching as the dual process of what?

4. When did King enter Boston University's School of Theology?

5. King stipulated there was something in the universe that justified Cullen Bryant when he said what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did King describe his meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon?

2. How did King view Reinhold Niebuhr?

3. How did King recall Morehouse College dealt with the issue of racial ills?

4. What awoke King and Ralph Abernathy at 2:00 a.m. on 9 January 1957?

5. How did King meet Coretta?

6. What was it King believed had been shoved upon his generation?

7. What city did King consider to be his home?

8. How did King view philosopher Walter Rauschenbusch?

9. In his freshman year in college, what was King's view of "On Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau?

10. How did King describe his wife?

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