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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the next stage of the "crusade" that began on April 6th?
(a) A march on City Hall.
(b) A march on the city jail.
(c) A march on the city merchants.
(d) A march on the city leader's homes.

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

7. 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) Oh Freedom.
(c) We Shall Overcome.
(d) Amazing Grace.

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

9. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?
(a) Appealed to the courts.
(b) Rioted in the streets.
(c) Still left signs up that said, "no colored allowed."
(d) Closed down the parks.

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

11. 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 he, as a Negro, was inferior.
(c) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(d) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.

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

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

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

15. At the beginning of 1963, how many negro students were attending integrated schools?
(a) 4 per cent.
(b) 9 per cent.
(c) 10 per cent.
(d) 13 per cent.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

3. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?

4. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?

5. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?

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