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

2. 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.

3. James Meredith, who was wounded by a sniper during his "March Against Fear" on 6 June 1966, integrated which institution in 1962?
(a) The University of Alabama.
(b) The Mississippi State University.
(c) The University of Southern Mississippi.
(d) The University of Mississippi.

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

5. On 26 July 1965 King led a march on Chicago City Hall and spoke before a rally sponsored by which organization?
(a) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
(b) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(c) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
(d) Chicago's Coordination Council of Community Organizations (CCCO).

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day was Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by Klan members as she drove marchers back from a 4-day march from Selma to Montgomery?

2. The movement entered what area of Los Angeles which was occupied by the National Guard?

3. During their visit with Meredith in the hospital, King (SCLC) and which leaders of other organizations agreed to continue his march?

4. On what day was President Kennedy assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as President?

5. King argued that the members of which religious faith must be committed to providing aid to the poor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. In the final chapter, what was it King recalled about his stabbing recovery?

10. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

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