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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. When MLK decided to still march and asked Ralph Abernathy to join him. The group that was gathered in the Gaston Motel joined hands and began to sing what song?
(a) Climbing Jacob's Ladder.
(b) Oh Freedom.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) We Shall Overcome.

2. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?
(a) Cleaning the streets.
(b) Finding a job.
(c) Registering voters.
(d) Collecting evidence of integration.

3. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?
(a) Making signs.
(b) Sit-ins.
(c) Getting the groups more educated.
(d) Picketing.

4. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Confrontation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?

2. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?

3. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

4. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?

5. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. What two concentric circles of segregation does MLK state that Negros live in?

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

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

5. In 1962, what did some of the students from Miles College and leaders of A.C.H.R. do together in Birmingham, and what were the results?

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

7. What does MLK mean when he states that the Negro knew what going to jail meant?

8. What happened to the United States senator who was visiting Birmingham to deliver a speech and walked through a door marked "Colored"?

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

10. What kind of doctrine did the Negro ministers preach to their congregations about the fight for racial justice?

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