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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 many black protesters marched on St. Augustine?
2. What speech did King deliver on the morning of 28 August 1963?
3. Although King saw President Johnson as being supportive of the Civil Rights Act, how did he describe President Johnson's view about protections its passage would provide blacks?
4. Why was the Black Power political phrase viewed as hypocritical?
5. Widespread racial violence between 11-15 August 1965 in Los Angeles, California, resulted in how many deaths?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did King indicate he recalled saying in his letter from the Birmingham Jail?
2. What transpired in the SCLC headquarters when it was learned that James Meredith had been shot?
3. Why did King view the summer of 1963 as being historic?
4. What did King relate about Malcolm X' being in Selma, Alabama, during the nonviolent movement and Malcolm X' comments to Coretta?
5. In the final chapter, what was it King recalled about his stabbing recovery?
6. How did King view Senator Barry Goldwater's nomination as the Republican Party's 1964 candidate for President?
7. How did James Meredith meet Stokely Carmichael?
8. What was King's opinion about frustration and aggression?
9. Why did King and Abernathy leave jail in Birmingham?
10. In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, how did King address the eight ministers who questioned direct action?
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
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
Evaluate the circumstances that led King to what he described as "the angriest I have ever been in my life" at age 14? How would this episode lead him toward determining what his duty in life would be at a young age? What influence might it have had in his decision to take up Rosa Parks' cause in 1955?
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