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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?
(a) A. Philip Randolph.
(b) John J. Maguire.
(c) Joachim Prinz.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

3. What does MLK say was one of the wisest moves they made in the campaign?
(a) Targeting merchants.
(b) Having the marches during Easter.
(c) Involving Birmingham's children.
(d) Starting with sit-ins.

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

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

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

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

8. MLK states that throughout their campaign they had been seeking to establish dialogue with the city leaders to negotiate how many major issues?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

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

11. 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 Negro.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.

12. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.
(b) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.
(c) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(d) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.

13. One of Thomas Jefferson's servants worked for some forty years to earn ten thousand dollars. How many people was she able to obtain liberation for?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Ten.

14. Who was the person during an interview of the Indian government's Prime Minister who asked, "But isn't that discrimination?" when the Prime Minister said that their schools were required to accept an untouchable over another person of high caste?
(a) Lawrence Reddick.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) John F Kennedy.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

15. 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?
(a) The National Anthem.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Wagner Act.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?

3. What did Mahatma Gandi do in moral leadership to set an example for his nation?

4. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?

5. 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?

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