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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Confrontation.
(c) Compliance.
(d) Celebration.

2. 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) Arthur Shores.
(c) Edward Gardner.
(d) A.G. Gaston.

3. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?
(a) Time and action.
(b) Success and discovery.
(c) Imagination and humbleness.
(d) Defeat and social movement.

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

5. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To divide it.
(b) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(c) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.
(d) To persuade them to your side.

6. Who is the sightless singer that MLK mentions "held a commanding position in our ranks"?
(a) Mel Torme.
(b) Lemon Jefferson.
(c) Willie Johnson.
(d) Al Hibbler.

7. The eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what?
(a) Soul.
(b) Heart.
(c) Sword.
(d) Knife.

8. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?
(a) Move out of their City Hall offices.
(b) Embrace the newly elected Mayor.
(c) Acknowledge the people that voted for them.
(d) Congratulate the winner.

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

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

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

12. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and King.
(b) Boutwell and Connor.
(c) Connor and King.
(d) Walker and King.

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

14. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?
(a) That your cause did not go unnoticed.
(b) That you won't know where your next meal will come from.
(c) To expect a severe beating.
(d) Liberty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?

3. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

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

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?

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