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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?
(a) Seven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Nine.
(d) Six.

2. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?
(a) They were ready to hold their hands and help them find a new life.
(b) They were ready to send them to another country.
(c) They were ready to build a new ghetto for him.
(d) They were ready to have them move into society with them.

3. What does MLK state is the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Nonviolence.
(c) Unity.
(d) Action.

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

5. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) Sidney Lanier.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

6. MLK states that when anyone would speak with President Eisenhower about racial justice they would come away with what?
(a) Postive outlook on the future of the nation.
(b) Mixed emotions.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) A feeling of power.

7. 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) Agreement.
(c) Uniformity.
(d) Peace.

8. 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?
(a) Orphan Annie.
(b) Oliver Twist.
(c) Andrew Tithsman.
(d) Mowgli.

9. When MLK talks of the good will withering he tells of the City Council refusing to do what?
(a) Acknowledge Negro leadership.
(b) Willingly accepting the Negro's cries for help.
(c) Appoint Negro policemen.
(d) Abandon prejudice thoughts.

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Why white people beat the Negro people.
(b) That she can't go to a public park.
(c) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.
(d) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.

14. What was the name of the assistant deputy attorney general that the Attorney General dispatched on May 4th?
(a) Charles Billups.
(b) Joseph F. Dolan.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Burke Marshall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

2. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?

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

4. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?

5. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?

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