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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 noted that Mahatma Gandhi labored for many years without his people being independent, and he died from what?
(a) From injury.
(b) From illness.
(c) From assassination.
(d) From old age.

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

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

4. How did King indicate protesters approaching Washington would arrive?
(a) Wearing shackles.
(b) By using mules.
(c) By marching proudly.
(d) Silently and carrying signs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On 10 January 1966, King backed which Georgia state Senator-elect's right to oppose the Vietnam War?

2. Where was Malcolm X assassinated on 21 February 1965?

3. What transpired in St. Augustine, Florida, that instigated the fight for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

4. King sought help from President Kennedy who met civil rights leaders on what date and convinced them something good would occur?

5. How many of his attorneys were allowed to visit King on Easter Sunday afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King stipulate about being jailed in Selma, Alabama?

2. What did King view as democracy's most significant challenge?

3. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?

4. What reason did King give for his opting to work in Chicago in 1966?

5. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

6. How did King view Senator Barry Goldwater's nomination as the Republican Party's 1964 candidate for President?

7. How did King describe Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth?

8. How did King describe life?

9. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?

10. Why did King use the phrase "one of the most important meetings we ever convened" to depict a SCLC staff meeting held in November, 1967?

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