(CNN) -- Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a champion for freedom, civil rights and justice. 

I was blessed to be with him the last weekend before his death. I remember the trauma he felt as a result of his opposition to the war in Vietnam. 

Before going to Memphis, King had the Rev. Ralph Abernathy call for a staff meeting in his church study on a Saturday morning. His close aides came. King complained that he had felt the pain of "a migraine headache for four days." He said, "Maybe I've done as much as I could. We've come from the back of the bus, gotten the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act..." One of us -- Andy Young -- asked him not to talk that way. King responded, "Don't say peace when there is no peace." 

Many of his supporters had turned against him because of his position on the war in Vietnam, but King felt he had to do what was right. He contended, "There are those who want me to confine my morality to the war on poverty and overlook the war in Vietnam. However, the bombs in Vietnam ultimately explode at home because of poverty." He contemplated fasting until he was near the point of death, anticipating that "those who disagree with me would come to my bedside and we could reconcile." 

But then he shook off his pessimism and declared, "Let's turn a minus into a plus, like we did before. Let's make this nation deal forthrightly with the issue of poverty." 

Answer the following questions:
1. What is today?
2. Who was he?
3. Why were people upset with him?
4. What was he suffering from?
5. What had he accomplished?
6. how long had he suffered?
7. Where was the staff meeting?
8. When?
9. Where was he about to go?
10. What did someone tell him?
11. What did he answer?
12. Why were people upset with him?
13. Why?
14. What was his response?
15. How did the war affect home?
16. What did he contemplate?
17. For how long?
18. What did he want America to deal with?
19. Who would come to his bed?

Numbered answers:
1. 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. a champion for freedom, civil rights and justice.
3. opposition to the war in Vietnam
4. migraine headache
5. the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act
6. four days
7. church study
8. Saturday morning
9. Memphis
10. not to talk that way
11. "Don't say peace when there is no peace."
12. his position on the war in Vietnam
13. There are those who want me to confine my morality to the war on poverty and overlook the war in Vietnam
14. had to do what was right.
15. the bombs in Vietnam ultimately explode at home because of poverty."
16. fasting
17. near the point of death
18. the issue of poverty.
19. "those who disagree with me