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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on jail sentances.
(b) The city code on lunch counters.
(c) The city code on picketing.
(d) The city code on segregation.

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

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

4. The merchants that were a part of the Senior Citizens Committee that met with the campaign leaders went back on their agreement. What was the rumor for the reason of what the merchants did?
(a) That they didn't think it would matter and so they went back on their agreement.
(b) That Bull Conner had threatened some of the merchants.
(c) That the Negros didn't follow through with their end of the agreement.
(d) They didn't like that not all the merchants followed the agreement so they didn't want to follow it either.

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

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

7. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?
(a) Funerals and celebrations.
(b) Birthdays and weddings.
(c) Birthdays and funerals.
(d) Weddings and funerals.

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

9. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK states that the Negro turned his back on force because he knew he couldn't win through physical force, and he also believed he could lose what?
(a) His belongings.
(b) His soul.
(c) His past and future.
(d) His place in society.

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

11. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) Non-violence.
(b) No more acceptance of brutality.
(c) Unity.
(d) The conviction that we were right.

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

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

14. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Talk back to a white man.
(b) Stand up for injustice.
(c) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(d) Take their children on a march.

15. 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) We Shall Overcome.
(b) Climbing Jacob's Ladder.
(c) Oh Freedom.
(d) Amazing Grace.

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. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?

3. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?

4. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?

5. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?

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