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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. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To persuade them to your side.
(b) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(c) To divide it.
(d) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.

2. Who said, "Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality"?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. 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) Collecting evidence of integration.
(b) Cleaning the streets.
(c) Registering voters.
(d) Finding a job.

4. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?
(a) Arthur Shores.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) The city jail.
(d) The President of the United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of 1963, how many negro students were attending integrated schools?

2. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?

3. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?

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

5. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the invitational periods at the mass meetings for?

2. With the number of volunteers increasing after the boycott of Birmingham businesses, what other campaigns were the demonstrators able to accomplish?

3. 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?

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 happened soon after the Supreme Court had handed down a decree calling for desegregation of schools that discouraged MLK?

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

7. What were the mass meetings that were held in the Negro community, how many were there, and where were these meetings held?

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

9. What would happen if a volunteer did not pass the strict test for service as a demonstrator?

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

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