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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 the 1964 election afforded the civil rights, labor, religious, and intellectual leaders alliance what within a year?
(a) Their fourth major victory.
(b) Their first major victory.
(c) Their third major victory.
(d) Their second major victory.

2. Although King saw President Johnson as being supportive of the Civil Rights Act, how did he describe President Johnson's view about protections its passage would provide blacks?
(a) "Optimistic politically."
(b) "Pessimistic politically."
(c) "Hopeful politically."
(d) "Uncertain politically."

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

4. 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 Civil Liberties.
(c) The Alabama Christian Convention for Human Rights.
(d) The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did King organize with Chicago's Mayor R. Daley and others on 26 August 1967?

3. Where did King deliver his initial public antiwar speech on 4 April 1967?

4. How did King indicate protesters approaching Washington would arrive?

5. When did a Ku Klux Klan meeting take place relative to the bombs being having been set?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were points King stipulated as to why he opposed the war in Vietnam?

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

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. What did King observe about Northern riots?

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

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

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