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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?
(a) Sit.
(b) Strike.
(c) Murmer.
(d) Slay.

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Connor and King.
(b) Walker and King.
(c) Boutwell and King.
(d) Boutwell and Connor.

4. What is the name of Martin Luther King's wife?
(a) Jasmina.
(b) Corretta.
(c) Julia.
(d) Cynthia.

5. When MLK decided to still march and asked Ralph Abernathy to join him. The group that was gathered in the Gaston Motel joined hands and began to sing what song?
(a) Climbing Jacob's Ladder.
(b) We Shall Overcome.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Oh Freedom.

6. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?
(a) Confrontation.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Comfort.

7. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

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

9. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?
(a) The water fountain and lavatory.
(b) Tables and lavatory.
(c) The lunch counter and water fountain.
(d) The water fountain and tables.

10. When the city government obtained a court injunction to cease the activities of the "Negro army," what did MLK's group do?
(a) They sent a letter to city officials concerning their cause.
(b) They disobeyed the court order.
(c) They appeared in court with all the volunteers following behind.
(d) They all sat on the courthouse steps.

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

12. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"
(a) A Testament of Hope.
(b) By My Words.
(c) I Have A Dream.
(d) Stride Toward Freedom.

13. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?
(a) 250.
(b) 150.
(c) 350.
(d) 200.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the caption read on the front page of the Birmingham News that celebrated mayoral victory?

2. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

3. What was every volunteer in Birmingham required to sign?

4. Who said, "Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality"?

5. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?

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