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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. Which social philosopher did King stipulate left an indelible imprint on his thinking?

2. What location in India did King describe as among the most beautiful in the world?

3. When did King enter Boston University's School of Theology?

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

5. What was it King admired most about his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did King move to Atlanta following five years in Montgomery?

6. How did King describe his initial meeting with John F. Kennedy?

7. Why did King regard 1958 as particularly difficult?

8. Why was it King viewed previously inactive Albany, Georgia, as having become turbulent?

9. In his freshman year in college, what was King's view of "On Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau?

10. Why did King choose the pastorate subsequent to his completion of the residential requirements for his doctorate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the significance of King's speech delivered to the Montgomery Improvement Association on the evening of 5 December 1955 with his "I Have a Dream" speech of 28 August 1963. Discuss the impact of the two addresses. What was King's assessment in his analysis of the importance of each?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate King's being selected for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Consider how King viewed his being chosen and events associated with his subsequently being awarded. Address the impact his receipt of the prize had upon his journey toward achievement of racial equality.

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