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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2054.

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

6. What was every volunteer in Birmingham required to sign?
(a) A Pledge to March.
(b) A Commitment Card.
(c) A Peace Letter.
(d) A Letter of Intent.

7. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

9. How many cities are mentioned to be in civil turmoil in the beginning of "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963"?
(a) Almost two hundred.
(b) Almost one thousand five hundred.
(c) Almost one thousand.
(d) Almost three hundred and fifty.

10. Who said, "Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

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

12. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?
(a) Winter slumber.
(b) Restless slumber.
(c) Continuous slumber.
(d) Rip Van Winkle slumber.

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

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

15. 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 forty-five.
(b) About sixty-five.
(c) About fifty.
(d) About seventy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?

2. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?

3. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?

4. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?

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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