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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his letter, MLK states that he has heard the word "Wait!" for years and that this word "Wait!" has always meant what?
(a) "Someday."
(b) "Never."
(c) "Evil."
(d) "Stop."

2. Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action?
(a) Because it was symbolic of Jesus rising on Easter morning.
(b) Because it was the time after the election.
(c) Because besides Christmas it is the main shopping period of the year.
(d) Because it helped the Negro community to remember their ties with God.

3. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?
(a) Paul.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

5. In "The Days To Come," MLK talks about Negros knowing political assassination well and that it was a common place thing to witness or hear about. What was the name of the person who was shot to death on the steps of a rural courthouse?
(a) Kenneth Jacobs.
(b) George Lee.
(c) Medgar Evers.
(d) William Moore.

6. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Eighty-five.
(d) Seventy.

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

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

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

10. 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) "A house."
(c) "F'eedom."
(d) "The same as you."

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

12. 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) Mowgli.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?

4. What does MLK say was one of the wisest moves they made in the campaign?

5. What day did the newspapers show pictures of woman on the ground with policemen bending over them with raised clubs and children being faced by dogs?

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