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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. King was arrested on 12 April 1963 for violation of an injunction against protesting by which Court?
2. What did King identify as the three remaining steps in any nonviolent campaign once an assessment of whether injustices existed has been determined?
3. Civil rights leaders focused on Selma, Alabama, in 1965 as 15,000 blacks were eligible to vote there, but only how many were registered?
4. King noted that one of life's great agonies is when we attempt to finish what?
5. Widespread racial violence between 11-15 August 1965 in Los Angeles, California, resulted in how many deaths?
Short Essay Questions
1. What transpired in the SCLC headquarters when it was learned that James Meredith had been shot?
2. What did King say about Selma, Alabama, in 1965?
3. How did King describe life?
4. In the final chapter, what was it King recalled about his stabbing recovery?
5. What were points King stipulated as to why he opposed the war in Vietnam?
6. What reason did King give for his opting to work in Chicago in 1966?
7. 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?
8. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?
9. What did King view as democracy's most significant challenge?
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 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 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
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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