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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?
(a) Congratulate the winner.
(b) Move out of their City Hall offices.
(c) Acknowledge the people that voted for them.
(d) Embrace the newly elected Mayor.

2. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The complacency of the courts.
(b) The ignorance of the white leaders.
(c) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.
(d) The slow pace of school desegregation.

3. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?
(a) South America.
(b) Europe.
(c) India.
(d) Africa.

4. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their golf team.
(b) Their football team.
(c) Their soccer team.
(d) Their baseball team.

5. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) Public parks.
(b) Merchants.
(c) City hall.
(d) Lunch counters.

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

7. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?
(a) Because they would be sold to another owner.
(b) Because they would lose their job.
(c) Because they wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.
(d) Because they would not get to see their family.

8. Who was MLK's executive assistant?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(b) Tom King.
(c) Wyatt Tee Walker.
(d) Albert Boutwell.

9. To the Negro in 1963 nonviolence could symbolize the "gold badge of heroism" rather than what?
(a) The white feather of cowardice.
(b) The yellow feather of humility.
(c) The yellow flag of despair.
(d) The white flag of surrender.

10. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?
(a) That the Negro community did not know how to survive without the white man.
(b) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(c) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.
(d) That he, as a Negro, was inferior.

11. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-four.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

13. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?
(a) The fear of the good people.
(b) The sinfulness of the bad people.
(c) The brutality of the bad people.
(d) The silence of the good people.

14. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Arthur Shores.
(c) Orzell Billingsley.
(d) Wyatt Walker.

15. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.
(b) Picketing businesses.
(c) Demanding jobs.
(d) Sitting in at lunch counters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

2. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

3. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?

4. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?

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