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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 8 (1945–1980) — Drill 17 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 8: 1945–1980. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 8 drill is based on excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech (Riverside Church, April 4, 1967). Questions analyze King's figurative language, his argument connecting the Vietnam War to the struggle for domestic civil rights and economic justice, and the historical context of his antiwar position.
Passage
The following is excerpted from a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination.
A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor — both black and white — through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
Questions in This Drill
- King's metaphor of Vietnam as a 'demonic destructive suction tube' most directly conveys his argument that
- King's reference to 'a shining moment' when there was 'real promise of hope for the poor' most directly refers to
- King's decision to publicly oppose the Vietnam War was considered controversial within the civil rights movement primarily because
- King's argument in this 1967 speech that domestic poverty and Vietnam War spending were directly connected reflected a broader political position known as
- The tension King describes between Great Society domestic programs and Vietnam War spending most directly contributed to which of the following broader developments?