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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. How did King receive a letter from eight clergy members from all major faiths while in jail?

2. King saw the rioting in Los Angeles as having arisen from what?

3. King's book, "Where Do We Go from Here, Chaos or Community?" was written when?

4. Although he and Malcolm X did not always see eye-to-eye as to methods, King stipulated Malcolm X had the great ability to do what?

5. On 26 July 1965 King led a march on Chicago City Hall and spoke before a rally sponsored by which organization?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did King observe about Northern riots?

3. What did King stipulate in his comparison of racial discrimination in the South and the North?

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

5. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?

6. How did King describe life?

7. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

8. How did King view St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964?

9. Why did King use the phrase "one of the most important meetings we ever convened" to depict a SCLC staff meeting held in November, 1967?

10. 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?

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

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

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?

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