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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?
(a) About fifty.
(b) About seventy.
(c) About forty-five.
(d) About sixty-five.

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

3. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?
(a) An ocean wave.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Lightning.
(d) A river.

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

5. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chattanooga.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Atlanta.

6. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(b) Scars of deep grievances.
(c) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

7. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?
(a) Mournfully.
(b) Easily.
(c) Silently.
(d) Secretively.

8. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?
(a) Exuberant..
(b) Lazy.
(c) Warm.
(d) Placid.

9. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Miles Anderson.
(d) George Wallace.

10. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Nonviolence.
(b) Civil Rights.
(c) Integration.
(d) Equality.

11. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?
(a) Physical force.
(b) Family.
(c) Chains and rope.
(d) The need to stay.

12. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Togetherness.

13. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Stand up for injustice.
(b) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(c) Take their children on a march.
(d) Talk back to a white man.

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

15. What did the caption read on the front page of the Birmingham News that celebrated mayoral victory?
(a) "Our Hope is Here in Birmingham."
(b) "Bull Connor Revisits Birmingham."
(c) "New Day Dawns for Birmingham."
(d) "Mayor for Birmingham is Elected."

Short Answer Questions

1. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

2. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?

3. What was one of the most important parts of the mass meetings according to MLK?

4. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?

5. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?

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