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

2. What phrase did King use to describe the approach the black community would follow in its pursuit of the Poor People's Campaign?

3. More than how many youngsters were arrested in the Birmingham "Children's Crusade" between 2-7 May 1963?

4. King was arrested on 12 April 1963 for violation of an injunction against protesting by which Court?

5. How many of his attorneys were allowed to visit King on Easter Sunday afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?

2. How did King view Senator Barry Goldwater's nomination as the Republican Party's 1964 candidate for President?

3. What did King observe about Northern riots?

4. What did King view as democracy's most significant challenge?

5. What did King stipulate about being jailed in Selma, Alabama?

6. Just shy of a year before he was assassinated, what point did King indicate had been reached?

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

8. 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?

9. How did King describe life?

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

Identify the four central barriers that King saw as being employed by Southern communities when denying blacks their right to vote. How did he describe these barriers as being utilized?

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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