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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?
(a) 200.
(b) 250.
(c) 150.
(d) 350.

2. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?
(a) 1995.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1982.
(d) 2054.

3. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?
(a) Sit.
(b) Strike.
(c) Slay.
(d) Murmer.

4. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?
(a) April 10th, 1963.
(b) April 3rd, 1963.
(c) April 4th, 1963.
(d) April 2nd, 1963.

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?
(a) Two hundred fifty.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Three hundred.

6. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Confrontation.

7. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To divide it.
(b) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.
(c) To persuade them to your side.
(d) To wipe them out with nonviolence.

8. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK states that the Negro turned his back on force because he knew he couldn't win through physical force, and he also believed he could lose what?
(a) His place in society.
(b) His past and future.
(c) His belongings.
(d) His soul.

9. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Bull Conner.
(d) Edward Gardner.

10. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) Followed.
(b) A real law.
(c) A fact.
(d) An occurance.

11. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to wait how?
(a) Without question.
(b) Nervously.
(c) Patiently.
(d) Willingly.

12. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) Unity.
(b) The conviction that we were right.
(c) Non-violence.
(d) No more acceptance of brutality.

13. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?
(a) "Let us go out and take a stand against those who have wronged us."
(b) "Let us go out and whip the world."
(c) "Let us go out and fight until death."
(d) "Let us go out and stand tall in front of the white man."

14. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?
(a) Picketing.
(b) Sit-ins.
(c) Making signs.
(d) Getting the groups more educated.

15. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?
(a) John Drew.
(b) A.G. Gaston.
(c) Edward Gardner.
(d) Arthur Shores.

Short Answer Questions

1. When MLK was autographing copies of his book in the Harlem department store, what was he stabbed with?

2. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?

3. The merchants that were a part of the Senior Citizens Committee that met with the campaign leaders went back on their agreement. What was the rumor for the reason of what the merchants did?

4. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?

5. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?

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