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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. Racial rioting between 12-14 July 1967 on Chicago's West Side resulted in what?
2. During their visit with Meredith in the hospital, King (SCLC) and which leaders of other organizations agreed to continue his march?
3. King wanted to learn from what Scandinavian tradition?
4. What position did the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) take on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
5. King noted that one of life's great agonies is when we attempt to finish what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did King say in his address at the Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the Nobel Prize?
2. What did King stipulate about being jailed in Selma, Alabama?
3. What did King say about Selma, Alabama, in 1965?
4. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?
5. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?
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. How did King describe life?
8. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?
9. What was King's opinion about frustration and aggression?
10. What did King observe about Northern riots?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate King's being selected for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Consider how King viewed his being chosen and events associated with his subsequently being awarded. Address the impact his receipt of the prize had upon his journey toward achievement of racial equality.
Essay Topic 2
Judge King's perspective of Senator Barry Goldwater. Why was he disgusted by the Republican Party's presidential nomination of Goldwater in 1964? How did King view his stances on foreign policy issues? Did he consider Goldwater a racist? Why did King believe Goldwater's nomination would aid racists?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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