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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) That she can't go to a public park.
(c) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.
(d) Why white people beat the Negro people.

2. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?
(a) To the schools.
(b) To the lunch counters.
(c) To the library.
(d) To city hall.

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

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

5. 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) Burke Marshall.
(d) Joseph F. Dolan.

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

7. 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 4th.
(c) May 1st.
(d) May 3rd.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) May 3rd.
(b) May 4th.
(c) May 5th.
(d) May 2nd.

14. 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 build a new ghetto for him.
(c) They were ready to have them move into society with them.
(d) They were ready to send them to another country.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that the "summer of our discontent" brought white citizens closer into harmony with their Negro citizens instead of what?

2. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?

3. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?

4. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?

5. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?

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