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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 day was Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by Klan members as she drove marchers back from a 4-day march from Selma to Montgomery?
2. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?
3. The movement entered what area of Los Angeles which was occupied by the National Guard?
4. Although King saw President Johnson as being supportive of the Civil Rights Act, how did he describe President Johnson's view about protections its passage would provide blacks?
5. More than how many youngsters were arrested in the Birmingham "Children's Crusade" between 2-7 May 1963?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did King view as democracy's most significant challenge?
2. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?
3. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?
4. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?
5. How did King describe life?
6. 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?
7. What did King stipulate about being jailed in Selma, Alabama?
8. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?
9. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?
10. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the context for King's occupational selection. Consider the paths of his other familial members. What were the environmental and cultural factors of his growing up in Atlanta during the Depression? What other influences may have swayed him?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze King's reasoning for what he termed "a turning point in my life" in 1960. Why did King move to Atlanta and accept a co-pastor position? In what events did he become involved during the first year? How did his schedule in Atlanta compare with what it had been in Montgomery? What did he soon come to recognize?
Essay Topic 3
Elaborate on the assemblage of King's autobiography subsequent to his death. How was the authenticity of the autobiography ensured? What materials were used to construct the narrative? What autobiographical editorial judgments did Clayborne Carson incorporate? Was he successful in his autobiographical editing?
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