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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) "The same as you."
(b) "To be like you."
(c) "A house."
(d) "F'eedom."

5. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.
(b) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.
(c) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(d) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?

4. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

5. What day did the newspapers show pictures of woman on the ground with policemen bending over them with raised clubs and children being faced by dogs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four basic steps in any nonviolent campaign that MLK mentions?

2. What does MLK state that the American Negro knows through painful experience?

3. What does MLK mention in "The Days to Come" that would immediately transform the conditions of Negro life?

4. How does MLK answer the questions of the clergymen of "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Aren't negotiations better?"

5. What does MLK say is the difference between just laws and unjust laws?

6. Why does MLK state that no revolution is like a ballet?

7. In what case does MLK mention that it wouldn't profit a Negro parent to send his or her child to an integrated school?

8. What did scientific observers place in the sealed death chambers where poison gas was to be administered to the victims of capital punishment?

9. How many people were involved with the March on Washington, and what kind of people were involved?

10. What did approximately 125 business leaders see when they left for lunch during the May 7th Senior Citizens Committee meeting?

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