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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Rioted in the streets.
(c) Closed down the parks.
(d) Appealed to the courts.

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

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

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

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

6. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?
(a) North General Hospital.
(b) New York Presbyterian Hospital.
(c) Harlem Hospital.
(d) South End Hospital.

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

8. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?
(a) John Drew.
(b) A.G. Gaston.
(c) Arthur Shores.
(d) Edward Gardner.

9. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?
(a) Calling the men by name.
(b) Singing a song.
(c) Crying and begging the men to stop.
(d) Reading from the Bible.

10. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?
(a) Exuberant..
(b) Lazy.
(c) Placid.
(d) Warm.

11. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) A fact.
(b) Followed.
(c) An occurance.
(d) A real law.

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

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

14. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Togetherness.
(c) Integration.
(d) Acceptance.

15. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?
(a) Sit-ins.
(b) Making signs.
(c) Getting the groups more educated.
(d) Picketing.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of 1963, how many negro students were attending integrated schools?

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

3. When the city government obtained a court injunction to cease the activities of the "Negro army," what did MLK's group do?

4. The first requirement of a volunteer's pledge was to do what daily?

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

(see the answer keys)

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