Letter from Birmingham Jail

Which of the following is not a step in Dr. King's nonviolent campaign?

• negotiation

• collection of facts

• direct action

• disappointment

To whom is the Letter from Birmingham Jail addressed?

• ministers who criticized King's efforts
• whites who arrested King for no reason
• his coworkers in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• his wife and his lawyer

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Who was the Negro's "great stumbling block," according to MLK Jr.?

• Birmingham Police Department

• Ku Klux Klan

• White Citizen's Council

• White Moderate

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice...

• ...in some places."

• ...in the south."

• ...everywhere."

• end of sentence.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does MLK believe about breaking the law?

• Laws should not be broken under any circumstances.

• Only the wealthy are allowed to break the law because they can afford to pay the price.

• If a law is deemed unjust, then it must be broken.

• Laws may be broken if the Bible says so.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

According to MLK, what is civil disobedience?

• a struggle between two social groups

• breaking the law in a peaceful manner

• breaking the law with the use of violence

• a struggle between branches of the government

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the rhetorical appeal Dr. King employs:

"...when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: 'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'..."

• ethos

• kairos

• logos

• pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state..." is an example of

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

" . . . and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid."

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue

rather than dialogue."

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5