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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 saw the rioting in Los Angeles as having arisen from what?
(a) From despair over poverty which was inextricably linked with racial justice.
(b) From the hopelessness felt by many regarding their economic destitution.
(c) From desperation many endure concerning race-related discrimination.
(d) From disheartenment culminating in masses due to brutal police tactics.

2. King believed that the poor in Los Angeles saw the riots as their only means of doing what?
(a) Punishing authorities.
(b) Getting noticed.
(c) Gaining equitable goods.
(d) Achieving retribution.

3. King's book, "Where Do We Go from Here, Chaos or Community?" was written when?
(a) In early 1967.
(b) In mid-1967.
(c) In late 1966.
(d) In mid-1966.

4. When did a Ku Klux Klan meeting take place relative to the bombs being having been set?
(a) Just prior to the bombings that night.
(b) Two nights before.
(c) Shortly following.
(d) One night before.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. King stated his life would not have been in vain if what?

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

3. How many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?

4. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?

5. King sought help from President Kennedy who met civil rights leaders on what date and convinced them something good would occur?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

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

8. 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?

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

10. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?

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