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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. An integrated dinner on 27 January 1965 that honored King was held where?

2. During their visit with Meredith in the hospital, King (SCLC) and which leaders of other organizations agreed to continue his march?

3. Following a press conference at the U.S. Senate, when was the only encounter King had with Malcolm X?

4. James Meredith, who was wounded by a sniper during his "March Against Fear" on 6 June 1966, integrated which institution in 1962?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were points King stipulated as to why he opposed the war in Vietnam?

2. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?

3. What did King say about Selma, Alabama, in 1965?

4. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?

5. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?

6. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?

7. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

8. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?

9. 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?

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

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 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

Examine the reasons why King eventually accepted the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. What other directions did he consider and what other options were available? What were the negatives of employment in the South in comparison with employment in the North? What did he and Coretta believe was his mission in life that swayed his decision?

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