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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King deliver his trial sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery?

2. When did King, Sr., marry Martin and Coretta?

3. King indicated that what the world needed was a group of women and men willing to do what?

4. Montgomery's Police Commissioner instructed taxi drivers not to do what during the bus boycott?

5. King began his freshman year at Morehouse College on what date?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was King's next step in his journey toward nonviolence following his studies at Crozer?

2. King continued to maintain what position while at Boston?

3. Why did King view 6 December 1955 as a day he would have to return to earth?

4. What hardships did King recall when he entered college?

5. King described the Montgomery Movement as what type of turning point?

6. What was it King conveyed about his use of the pronoun "I" in his account of the Montgomery Movement?

7. When did King begin a search to eliminate social evil?

8. How did King describe his wife?

9. What did King observe about love?

10. What was it King believed had been shoved upon his generation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the four central barriers that King saw as being employed by Southern communities when denying blacks their right to vote. How did he describe these barriers as being utilized?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the tactics upon which King and the SCLC agreed during their November, 1967, meeting. What was the overall goal the executives of the SCLC sought? What were the tactics upon which they agreed to adopt? What were the steps King took? Why did they believe these efforts would be successful?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the stances King held concerning death. What did King convey about his view regarding death in general? What specifics did he relate regarding his own demise? Consider his near-death experience in Harlem in 1958? What about other death threats and plots against him? What did he relate regarding his own funeral?

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