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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Gratitude.
(c) A feeling of power.
(d) Mixed emotions.

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

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

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

7. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Charles Billups.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Jim Bevel.

8. Who said, "I wish he'd been carried away in a hearse" after they had heard that Fred Shuttlesworth was injured?
(a) Charles Billups.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Joseph F. Dolan.
(d) Burke Marshall.

9. 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 send them to another country.
(b) They were ready to build a new ghetto for him.
(c) They were ready to hold their hands and help them find a new life.
(d) They were ready to have them move into society with them.

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

11. 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 freed the slaves long ago.
(b) Because he created all men as equals.
(c) Because he was a Negro as well.
(d) Because he was a figure of civil rights.

12. 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?
(a) 110.
(b) 100.
(c) 95.
(d) 120.

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

14. 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) Mowgli.
(b) Andrew Tithsman.
(c) Orphan Annie.
(d) Oliver Twist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. President Kennedy once said something to MLK in the White House about not being too harsh on the judgment of someone. Who was the person that President Kennedy was speaking about?

3. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

4. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?

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

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