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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of acceptance does MLK say is more bewildering than outright rejection?
(a) Undecided.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Lukewarm.
(d) Various.

2. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) New York City.
(d) Atlanta.

3. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) Roger Blough.
(d) Whitney Young, Jr.

4. MLK states that throughout their campaign they had been seeking to establish dialogue with the city leaders to negotiate how many major issues?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

5. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?
(a) Because he created all men as equals.
(b) Because he was a Negro as well.
(c) Because he was a figure of civil rights.
(d) Because he freed the slaves long ago.

6. Which of Jesus's apostles does MLK liken himself to in his letter to the clergymen?
(a) Paul.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Thomas.
(d) John.

7. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That the white churches participated.
(b) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(c) That it was done in the nation's capital.
(d) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.

8. 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) Agreement.
(b) Uniformity.
(c) Peace.
(d) Tolerance.

9. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?
(a) The National Anthem.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Wagner Act.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

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

11. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?
(a) Nashville, Tennessee.
(b) Columbia, South Carolina.
(c) Savannah, Georgia.
(d) Greensboro, North Carolina.

12. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?
(a) "We can make ourselves free."
(b) "We are in the right position to win."
(c) "We are human beings too and deserve the chance for change."
(d) "We shall overcome."

13. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?
(a) A revolution.
(b) A democracy.
(c) A coholition.
(d) A campaign.

14. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.

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 his wife wanted him to go.
(d) Because he could get a lot of exposure if he came to Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?

2. How many steps does MLK say that a nonviolent campaign has?

3. A day was set as "D" day, when students would go to jail in historical numbers. What day was "D" day?

4. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

5. MLK states that when anyone would speak with President Eisenhower about racial justice they would come away with what?

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