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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. Which group, in conjunction with the SCLC, launched a protest following the election in Birmingham?
(a) The Alabama Christian Conference for Civil Rights.
(b) The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
(c) The Alabama Christian Convention for Human Rights.
(d) The Alabama Christian Movement for Civil Liberties.

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

3. What did King identify as the three remaining steps in any nonviolent campaign once an assessment of whether injustices existed has been determined?
(a) The steps were indirect action, silent prayer, and gathering support.
(b) The steps were silent prayer, self-purification, and direct action.
(c) The steps were negotiation, gathering support, and indirect action.
(d) The steps were negotiation, self-purification, and direct action.

4. How many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 3,700.
(c) 9,500.
(d) 2,400.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Civil rights leaders focused on Selma, Alabama, in 1965 as 15,000 blacks were eligible to vote there, but only how many were registered?

3. White youths murdered a black boy who rode his bicycle while on the same day, a black girl was killed on the streets by whom?

4. King wanted to learn from what Scandinavian tradition?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompted King to visit Watts immediately following the riots despite being warned not to go there?

2. What transpired in the SCLC headquarters when it was learned that James Meredith had been shot?

3. What did King observe about Northern riots?

4. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?

5. What was King's opinion about frustration and aggression?

6. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?

7. 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?

8. King experienced what when he initially took his position on the war in Vietnam?

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

10. Why did King see "the poverty of conscience of the white majority in Birmingham" as being clearest at the child martyrs' funerals in September 1963?

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