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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. What transpired in St. Augustine, Florida, that instigated the fight for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan beat three blacks unconscious.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan beat four blacks unconscious.
(c) The Ku Klux Klan beat five blacks unconscious.
(d) The Ku Klux Klan beat six blacks unconscious.

2. King assessed the summer of 1963 when he noted it was what?
(a) A revolution, not merely a revolt.
(b) A struggle, not merely an uprising.
(c) A war, not merely a battle.
(d) An insurgency, not merely an insurgent.

3. Which group, in conjunction with the SCLC, launched a protest following the election in Birmingham?
(a) The Alabama Christian Movement for Civil Liberties.
(b) The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
(c) The Alabama Christian Conference for Civil Rights.
(d) The Alabama Christian Convention for Human Rights.

4. How did King respond to President Kennedy's having called Coretta over Easter weekend?
(a) Via letter.
(b) Via telegram.
(c) Via postcard.
(d) Via telephone.

5. How did King receive a letter from eight clergy members from all major faiths while in jail?
(a) It was advertised in a newspaper.
(b) It arrived via a telegram.
(c) It arrived via a postcard.
(d) It arrived in the mail.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. King believed that the poor in Los Angeles saw the riots as their only means of doing what?

3. When did King initially call for a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam?

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

5. An integrated dinner on 27 January 1965 that honored King was held where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

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

9. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?

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

(see the answer keys)

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