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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. Why did King respond to the eight clergymen when he rarely did so as it would leave him little time for "constructive" work?
(a) Since they were all clergy he felt they would listen to his response.
(b) He felt they were sincere and he wanted to answer in patient terms.
(c) Since he was incarcerated, he had time to respond and felt hey would listen.
(d) As fellow clergy he felt they would listen to his response reasonably.

2. King said one had to get one's heart right with God, and while not having attained the highest peak or realized all one's dreams, he did what?
(a) "Tried."
(b) "Approached the goal honestly."
(c) "Was committed."
(d) "Achieved some success."

3. 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) "Pessimistic politically."
(c) "Hopeful politically."
(d) "Optimistic politically."

4. How did Jimmie Lee Jackson die on 26 February 1965 in Marion, Alabama?
(a) Klan night riders beat him during a demonstration.
(b) Youths beat him during a demonstration.
(c) Police released a K-9 on him during a demonstration.
(d) Police shot him during a demonstration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. King's book, "Where Do We Go from Here, Chaos or Community?" was written when?

2. Where did angry whites attack a Civil Rights march in Chicago on 5 August 1967?

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

4. After he explained why he was responding to their letter, what was the first item King addressed?

5. King noted that Mahatma Gandhi labored for many years without his people being independent, and he died from what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What did King observe about Northern riots?

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

8. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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