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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. Why was the Black Power political phrase viewed as hypocritical?

2. The 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace was received by King, but whom did he feel truly deserved the award?

3. What speech did King deliver on the morning of 28 August 1963?

4. King sought as his legacy justice, he was good to both the oppressed and the poor, and strove to do right even when he was what?

5. President Kennedy called Coretta Scott King and expressed concern for her husband on what date?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did King view Birmingham, Alabama?

2. How did King describe Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth?

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

4. What was King's opinion about frustration and aggression?

5. 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?

6. What did King observe about Northern riots?

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

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

9. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?

10. How did King describe his experience in Birmingham?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast King's commitment to nonviolent resistance with his concern about the capability of love to resolve social problems. How did his views regarding nonviolence and pacifism evolve? How did he balance nonviolence with active opposition to totalitarianism, segregation, seeking voting rights, and other causes? Why was it King could not apply the concept of Christian love to institutions? What increased King's confidence in the social power of love?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare and contrast King's opinions of the violence in Watts in 1965 with that in Chicago in 1966, and the subsequent successes and failures of both. How did he perceive slums in both environments? What did King discern resulted from these riots? How did he connect fighting against poverty with racial justice? How did the nonviolent movement encounter a crisis in the North? What did the drives seek in both cities?

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