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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?
(a) As breeders.
(b) As cooks.
(c) As wives.
(d) As maids.

2. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?
(a) Room 20.
(b) Room 30.
(c) Room 40.
(d) Room 15.

3. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on picketing.
(b) The city code on segregation.
(c) The city code on lunch counters.
(d) The city code on jail sentances.

4. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?
(a) Cleaning the streets.
(b) Collecting evidence of integration.
(c) Registering voters.
(d) Finding a job.

5. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Hubert Humphrey.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

6. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?
(a) King and Conner.
(b) Boutwell and Conner.
(c) Boutwell and King.
(d) King and Walker.

7. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why people are different.
(b) To be carried on their shoulders.
(c) To be locked up.
(d) Why they don't like them.

8. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?
(a) Horse-size.
(b) Skyscraper-size.
(c) House-size.
(d) Room-size.

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

10. 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 forty-five.
(c) About seventy.
(d) About sixty-five.

11. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?
(a) Their boldness.
(b) Their desire to be a whole nation.
(c) Their devotion to family.
(d) Their sense of justice.

12. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Remorsefully.
(c) Mournfully.
(d) Quietly.

13. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?
(a) Arthur Shores.
(b) The city jail.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) The President of the United States.

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

15. 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 a remorseful upbringing.
(c) Scars of deep grievances.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?

2. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?

3. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?

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

5. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?

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