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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK say was one of the wisest moves they made in the campaign?
(a) Targeting merchants.
(b) Involving Birmingham's children.
(c) Starting with sit-ins.
(d) Having the marches during Easter.

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

3. 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?
(a) Daring.
(b) Forthright.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Agreeable.

4. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?
(a) Or are Negroes "walking a little straighter these days?"
(b) Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"
(c) Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"
(d) Or are Negroes "really sure they are our equals?"

5. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.
(b) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(c) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.
(d) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.

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

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

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

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

10. When MLK appeared on the show, "Meet the Press," who appeared on the show with him?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) His wife.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

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

12. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?
(a) In genocide.
(b) In acceptance.
(c) In anger.
(d) In violence.

13. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law is no law at all."
(b) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(c) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."
(d) That "an unjust law is still a law."

14. 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 United States.
(c) The earth.
(d) The state of Alabama.

15. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?
(a) By helping up the beaten marchers.
(b) By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.
(c) By yelling and threatening the police officers.
(d) By throwing rocks and bottles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?

2. What is the name of the person whose doctrine is "no man is an island"?

3. What kind of acceptance does MLK say is more bewildering than outright rejection?

4. Who said, "I wish he'd been carried away in a hearse" after they had heard that Fred Shuttlesworth was injured?

5. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

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