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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. What was King's fine when found guilty of the antiboycott law?

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

3. King's collegiate studies made him increasingly skeptical as he could not reconcile what?

4. King was arrested on 16 December 1961 with how many other Albany protesters?

5. When was King elected head of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did King view Reinhold Niebuhr?

3. How did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe his being religious?

4. How did King view the Montgomery bus protest?

5. In the opening of Chapter 11, "Birth of a New Nation," what was it King stipulated Ghana had to say?

6. What did King observe about love?

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

8. What prompted King to make the comment during his initial conversation with Coretta that they should get married someday?

9. How did King describe his wife?

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

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

King frequently used the analogies of being on mountaintops or in valleys within his writings to illustrate his points. What are various examples of other times King employed the analogy tool to convey a point?

Essay Topic 3

Assess the initial writing in Chapter 32 in which King elaborated on his view that "Life is a continual story of shattered dreams." Address points he made concerning Mahatma Gandhi, Woodrow Wilson, and the Apostle Paul. What was it individuals sought? King defined the story of life as being what? How could one be happy if they never achieved their goal?

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