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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on jail sentances.
(b) The city code on picketing.
(c) The city code on segregation.
(d) The city code on lunch counters.

2. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Togetherness.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Integration.

3. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?
(a) Funerals and celebrations.
(b) Birthdays and weddings.
(c) Birthdays and funerals.
(d) Weddings and funerals.

4. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Window cleaners.
(d) Custodians.

5. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?
(a) Because they would lose their job.
(b) Because they would be sold to another owner.
(c) Because they wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.
(d) Because they would not get to see their family.

Short Answer Questions

1. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?

2. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?

3. To the Negro in 1963 nonviolence could symbolize the "gold badge of heroism" rather than what?

4. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?

5. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What phrase did Fred Shuttlesworth use to describe Albert Boutwell and why?

2. What are some of the questions that the girl and boy ask themselves?

3. What is the new phenomenon that MLK mentions white men would gasp at?

4. In the introduction of Why We Can't Wait, MLK talks about a young Negro girl. Describe the setting that MLK describes for this girl.

5. What are some of the words that John F. Kennedy uttered on June 11th, 1963?

6. In the second section of Bull Connor's Birmingham, what does MLK state that the one threat to the reign of white supremacy in Birmingham was?

7. What does MLK state that Bull Connor prided himself in?

8. Why was the Negro's economic problem compounded by the emergence and growth of automation?

9. What did Marcus Garvey propose to the Negro race, and why was his plan doomed according to MLK?

10. In the days of slavery, how was suppression openly, scientifically, and consistently applied to the Negro population?

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