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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Peace.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Uniformity.

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

4. By the end of April, the attitude of the national press had changed, and the coverage the campaign received was what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Bewildering.

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

6. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) God.
(d) Joe Louis.

7. 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 is still a law."
(c) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(d) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."

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

9. What did Mahatma Gandi do in moral leadership to set an example for his nation?
(a) He taught the untouchables.
(b) He invited a family of untouchables to live with him.
(c) He adopted an untouchable as his daughter.
(d) He lived with the untouchables.

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

11. 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 2nd.
(b) May 4th.
(c) May 5th.
(d) May 3rd.

12. 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?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

13. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) At lunch counters.
(b) At churches.
(c) In parks.
(d) At the Gaston motel.

14. 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"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.

15. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(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 the white churches participated.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

4. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?

5. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?

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