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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Cleaning the streets.
(b) Collecting evidence of integration.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) Registering voters.

2. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Wyatt Walker.
(c) Harry Wagner.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

4. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?
(a) A river.
(b) Lightning.
(c) An ocean wave.
(d) An earthquake.

5. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Wyatt Walker.
(c) Orzell Billingsley.
(d) Arthur Shores.

6. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?
(a) Chains and rope.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Family.
(d) The need to stay.

7. 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 city jail.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Arthur Shores.

8. 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.

9. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?
(a) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.
(b) That the Negro community did not know how to survive without the white man.
(c) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(d) That he, as a Negro, was inferior.

10. In "The Sword That Heals," what does MLK mention was no longer a disgrace, but a badge of honor?
(a) Being called names on the street.
(b) Businesses seperating areas for blacks and white.
(c) Being seen as different.
(d) A Negro going to jail.

11. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) Lunch counters.
(b) Public parks.
(c) City hall.
(d) Merchants.

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

13. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Hubert Humphrey.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Gerald Ford.

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

15. The first requirement of a volunteer's pledge was to do what daily?
(a) Pray for the saving grace of God.
(b) Know the laws of the land and not break them.
(c) Meditate on the teachings and life of Jesus.
(d) Exercise and stay in shape.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?

3. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?

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

5. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?

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