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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. MLK talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?
(a) 95.
(b) 100.
(c) 120.
(d) 110.

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

3. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?
(a) "We can make ourselves free."
(b) "We shall overcome."
(c) "We are human beings too and deserve the chance for change."
(d) "We are in the right position to win."

4. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?
(a) Eight.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Seven.

5. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?
(a) Why white people beat the Negro people.
(b) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.
(c) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.
(d) That she can't go to a public park.

6. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Eighty-five.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Eighty.

7. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(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 is no law at all."

8. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?
(a) Violence.
(b) Hate.
(c) Adversary.
(d) Tension.

9. Which of Jesus's apostles does MLK liken himself to in his letter to the clergymen?
(a) Paul.
(b) Matthew.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

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

11. 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?
(a) Sheriff's cars and pick-up trucks.
(b) Sheriff's cars and school buses.
(c) Taxis and school buses.
(d) Taxis and pick-up trucks.

12. 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) Mowgli.
(b) Andrew Tithsman.
(c) Orphan Annie.
(d) Oliver Twist.

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

14. 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.

15. MLK talks about one of the most poignant replies to a question. It came from a girl who was not more than eight that answered a police officer's question of "what do you want?" with what reply?
(a) "F'eedom."
(b) "To be like you."
(c) "A house."
(d) "The same as you."

Short Answer Questions

1. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?

2. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

3. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?

4. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?

5. When MLK appeared on the show, "Meet the Press," who appeared on the show with him?

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