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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. 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) "Uncertain politically."
(b) "Hopeful politically."
(c) "Optimistic politically."
(d) "Pessimistic politically."

2. When Albert Boutwell won a runoff election for mayor on 2 April 1963 against Birmingham Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, what did Connor do?
(a) He left his office, but other commissioners refused to leave.
(b) Along with other commissioners, he refused to leave office.
(c) He refused to leave his office, but other commissioners left.
(d) Along with two other commissioners, he refused to leave office.

3. What did the State of California repeal?
(a) Its law preventing racial discrimination in employment.
(b) Its law preventing segregation in schools.
(c) Its law preventing racial discrimination in housing.
(d) Its law preventing segregation in restaurants.

4. An integrated dinner on 27 January 1965 that honored King was held where?
(a) In St. Augustine.
(b) In New York.
(c) In Birmingham.
(d) In Atlanta.

5. King indicated the war in Vietnam played havoc with what?
(a) The destiny of all Vietnam.
(b) The destiny of all Southeast Asia.
(c) The destiny of the entire world.
(d) The destiny of an entire generation.

Short Answer Questions

1. King stipulated he "deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems" for how long?

2. In the chapter about the Nobel Prize, King described his view of airline personnel and ranked which members as foremost?

3. How many people took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

4. King wanted to learn from what Scandinavian tradition?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What did King stipulate in his comparison of racial discrimination in the South and the North?

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

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

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

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

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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