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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Archelaus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

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

4. A day was set as "D" day, when students would go to jail in historical numbers. What day was "D" day?
(a) May 3rd.
(b) May 4th.
(c) May 1st.
(d) May 2nd.

5. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?
(a) Joe Louis.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) God.

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

7. 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) Savannah, Georgia.
(b) Nashville, Tennessee.
(c) Columbia, South Carolina.
(d) Greensboro, North Carolina.

8. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"
(a) Any of the southern states.
(b) The state of Alabama.
(c) The earth.
(d) The United States.

9. When several hundred Birmingham Negros decided to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail where did they meet?
(a) Birmingham City Hall.
(b) The Birmingham train station.
(c) New Pilgrim Baptist Church.
(d) New Zion Church.

10. MLK states that white people don't understand that it is no more possible to be half free than what?
(a) Exuberant because of loss.
(b) Half dead.
(c) Happy with nothing.
(d) Half alive.

11. MLK talks about one of the most poignant replies to a question. It came from a girl who was not more than eight that answered a police officer's question of "what do you want?" with what reply?
(a) "To be like you."
(b) "F'eedom."
(c) "The same as you."
(d) "A house."

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

13. How many steps does MLK say that a nonviolent campaign has?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

14. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?
(a) Unwise and untimely.
(b) Honorable and wise.
(c) Desirable and praiseworthy.
(d) Selfish and Ugly.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?

2. MLK discusses the fact that the Negro knows he is right in pursuing his rights in unity of the movement and quotes someone as saying, "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too" what?

3. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?

4. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?

5. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?

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