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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?
(a) Joachim Prinz.
(b) John J. Maguire.
(c) A. Philip Randolph.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Who said, "I wish he'd been carried away in a hearse" after they had heard that Fred Shuttlesworth was injured?
(a) Charles Billups.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Burke Marshall.
(d) Joseph F. Dolan.

3. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?
(a) Kicking a can around the neighborhood.
(b) Eating an ice cream cone.
(c) Playing kickball with some friends.
(d) Riding his bicycle.

4. When MLK talks of the good will withering he tells of the City Council refusing to do what?
(a) Abandon prejudice thoughts.
(b) Acknowledge Negro leadership.
(c) Appoint Negro policemen.
(d) Willingly accepting the Negro's cries for help.

5. After the President of the United States told the nation he would not allow extremists to sabotage a fair and just pact, how many federal troops did he order into Birmingham?
(a) Two thousand five hundred.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Three thousand five hundred.

6. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law is no law at all."
(b) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."
(c) That "an unjust law is still a law."
(d) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."

7. MLK states that the "summer of our discontent" brought white citizens closer into harmony with their Negro citizens instead of what?
(a) Confusing the white citizens about what the Negro citizens want.
(b) Driving them further apart from their fellow Negro citizens.
(c) Alienating America's white citizens.
(d) Pushing them together in a rage.

8. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?
(a) By throwing rocks and bottles.
(b) By yelling and threatening the police officers.
(c) By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.
(d) By helping up the beaten marchers.

9. MLK states that when anyone would speak with President Eisenhower about racial justice they would come away with what?
(a) Mixed emotions.
(b) A feeling of power.
(c) Postive outlook on the future of the nation.
(d) Gratitude.

10. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?
(a) Because he was a Negro as well.
(b) Because he created all men as equals.
(c) Because he freed the slaves long ago.
(d) Because he was a figure of civil rights.

11. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?
(a) Joe Louis.
(b) God.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?
(a) To city hall.
(b) To the schools.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the lunch counters.

13. What is the name of the person whose doctrine is "no man is an island"?
(a) Canon John Donne.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

14. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Charles Billups.
(d) Jim Bevel.

15. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?
(a) The electric cattle prod.
(b) The shot gun.
(c) Barbed wire.
(d) The pocket knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?

2. MLK talks about the fact that different organizations getting together for the unity of the movement is a remarkable feature of importance. He states that unity has never meant what?

3. What does MLK say the Gandhian principle is?

4. When the police ran out of paddy wagons to bring people in to the jail, what other two vehicles did they end up using to transport people?

5. By the end of April, the attitude of the national press had changed, and the coverage the campaign received was what?

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