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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. The eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what?
(a) Soul.
(b) Knife.
(c) Heart.
(d) Sword.

2. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?
(a) Move out of their City Hall offices.
(b) Congratulate the winner.
(c) Acknowledge the people that voted for them.
(d) Embrace the newly elected Mayor.

3. 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) The President of the United States.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) The city jail.

4. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?
(a) Harlem Hospital.
(b) New York Presbyterian Hospital.
(c) North General Hospital.
(d) South End Hospital.

5. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?
(a) Their sense of justice.
(b) Their desire to be a whole nation.
(c) Their boldness.
(d) Their devotion to family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?

2. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?

3. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

4. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?

5. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was George Wallace's inauguration vow?

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

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

5. 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.

6. What did people have to do after they volunteered and walked up front to shake hands with the leaders of the campaign?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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