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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. On what date did King's attorney arrange his release from prison?

2. What structure stood diagonally across the square from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. On what date did King call for a Day of Penance to atone for an outbreak of racial violence in Albany?

4. King grew up in, and later become co-pastor of, what church?

5. When did King and other MIA leaders unsuccessfully meet with whites in an attempt to resolve the bus issue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did King observe that Ghana symbolized?

4. What did King note about the Great Depression?

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

6. How did King meet Coretta?

7. What city did King consider to be his home?

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

9. How did King's behavior reflect upon his perceived stereotype whites typically had of blacks?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the view King held of the student sit-in phase of the early 1960s. What were aspects of protests of that era that he felt distinguished them from earlier periods? What did King stipulate was the ultimate goal of blacks with regard to whites? What did he specify was the moral obligation and ultimate aim of blacks in his analysis of the student movement? "The most significant aspect of this student movement" that King identified was what?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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