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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) John Lewis.
(c) Charles Morgan.
(d) James Farmer.

2. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?
(a) In violence.
(b) In genocide.
(c) In acceptance.
(d) In anger.

3. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?
(a) Well timed.
(b) Easy to endure.
(c) Not needed.
(d) Effective.

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

5. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?
(a) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(b) Columbia, South Carolina.
(c) Nashville, Tennessee.
(d) Savannah, Georgia.

6. Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action?
(a) Because it was the time after the election.
(b) Because besides Christmas it is the main shopping period of the year.
(c) Because it was symbolic of Jesus rising on Easter morning.
(d) Because it helped the Negro community to remember their ties with God.

7. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?
(a) A maple syrup pace.
(b) A snail's pace.
(c) A turtle's pace.
(d) A horse-and-buggy pace.

8. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) At the Gaston motel.
(b) At churches.
(c) At lunch counters.
(d) In parks.

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

10. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?
(a) Because his wife wanted him to go.
(b) Because he could get a lot of exposure if he came to Birmingham.
(c) Because someone asked him to come.
(d) Because there is injustice in Birmingham.

11. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.

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 lunch counters.
(d) To the library.

13. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Orphan Annie.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

14. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Sidney Lanier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Thomas Jefferson's servants worked for some forty years to earn ten thousand dollars. How many people was she able to obtain liberation for?

2. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?

3. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?

4. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?

5. 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?

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