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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?
(a) The Ku Klux Klanner.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) The White Citizen's Counciler.
(d) The white moderate.

2. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?
(a) Adversary.
(b) Tension.
(c) Violence.
(d) Hate.

3. MLK talks about the fact that different organizations getting together for the unity of the movement is a remarkable feature of importance. He states that unity has never meant what?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Peace.
(c) Uniformity.
(d) Agreement.

4. In "The Days To Come" MLK states that it wasn't until when that the Army began to understand that the white man in uniform must respect a black man in uniform?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The March on Washington.
(d) World War I.

5. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Paul.

6. By the end of April, the attitude of the national press had changed, and the coverage the campaign received was what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Bewildering.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Sympathetic.

7. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?
(a) Not needed.
(b) Effective.
(c) Well timed.
(d) Easy to endure.

8. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?
(a) Playing kickball with some friends.
(b) Eating an ice cream cone.
(c) Kicking a can around the neighborhood.
(d) Riding his bicycle.

9. What does MLK say the Gandhian principle is?
(a) "Don't show your weakness."
(b) "Fill up the jails."
(c) "Peace will win."
(d) "Never fight back."

10. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?
(a) Challenges.
(b) Places.
(c) Sights.
(d) Situations.

11. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?
(a) John Lewis.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Charles Morgan.

12. What is the name of the person whose doctrine is "no man is an island"?
(a) Canon John Donne.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

13. In the beginning of "The Summer of Our Discontent," what famous person does MLK mention came to join the ranks of people?
(a) Muhammad Ali.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Floyd Patterson.
(d) Joe Louis.

14. MLK states that the "summer of our discontent" brought white citizens closer into harmony with their Negro citizens instead of what?
(a) Confusing the white citizens about what the Negro citizens want.
(b) Pushing them together in a rage.
(c) Alienating America's white citizens.
(d) Driving them further apart from their fellow Negro citizens.

15. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?
(a) Because someone asked him to come.
(b) Because there is injustice in Birmingham.
(c) Because he could get a lot of exposure if he came to Birmingham.
(d) Because his wife wanted him to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the assistant deputy attorney general that the Attorney General dispatched on May 4th?

2. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?

3. MLK talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?

4. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

5. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?

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