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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?
(a) "Let us go out and stand tall in front of the white man."
(b) "Let us go out and take a stand against those who have wronged us."
(c) "Let us go out and fight until death."
(d) "Let us go out and whip the world."

2. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Public School Law.
(b) The Pupil Placement Law.
(c) The Negro Exclusion Law.
(d) The Integration Deliverance Law.

3. 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 wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.
(c) Because they would lose their job.
(d) Because they would not get to see their family.

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

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

6. The eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what?
(a) Knife.
(b) Soul.
(c) Heart.
(d) Sword.

7. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.
(b) To persuade them to your side.
(c) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(d) To divide it.

8. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) The Homestead Act.
(c) National Currency Act.
(d) Thanksgiving.

9. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?
(a) Window cleaners.
(b) Custodians.
(c) Nurses.
(d) Lawyers.

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

11. What was one of the most important parts of the mass meetings according to MLK?
(a) The recognition of leaders.
(b) The togetherness of the Negro community.
(c) The education of the volunteers.
(d) The freedom songs.

12. When the crusade started marching from Zion Hill church, how far were they permitted to march?
(a) Seven or eight blocks.
(b) Nine or ten blocks.
(c) Eight or nine blocks.
(d) Six or seven blocks.

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

14. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?
(a) Edward Gardner.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Bull Conner.
(d) Fred Shuttlesworth.

15. 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) India.
(c) Africa.
(d) Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

2. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?

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

4. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

5. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?

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