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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. 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?
(a) Ku Klux Klan members.
(b) The Police.
(c) White men.
(d) A bus driver.

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 cooperation and racial calm.
(b) A new spirit of manhood and racial harmony.
(c) A new spirit of class and racial harmony.
(d) A new spirit of dignity and peace.

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

4. The 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace was received by King, but whom did he feel truly deserved the award?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) The Civil Rights movement.
(c) Those killed for the Civil Rights movement.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

5. Following a press conference at the U.S. Senate, when was the only encounter King had with Malcolm X?
(a) On 16 May 1964.
(b) On 5 April 1964.
(c) On 26 March 1964.
(d) On 6 June 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did the leader of SNCC ignite controversy when he used the Black Power slogan?

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

4. Where did Coretta meet Malcolm X on 5 February 1965?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?

2. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?

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

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

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

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

7. What did King say about Selma, Alabama, in 1965?

8. How did King view St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964?

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

10. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

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