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

2. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) Unity.
(b) No more acceptance of brutality.
(c) Non-violence.
(d) The conviction that we were right.

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

4. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why they don't like them.
(b) To be locked up.
(c) Why people are different.
(d) To be carried on their shoulders.

5. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their golf team.
(b) Their football team.
(c) Their soccer team.
(d) Their baseball team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?

2. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?

3. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

4. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Shortly after the S.C.L.C. convention took place in September of 1962, how were Fred Shuttlesworth's fears justified?

4. In the introduction of Why We Can't Wait, MLK mentions that he sees a young Negro boy. Describe the setting that MLK describes for this boy.

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. What happened to MLK while he was was at a Harlem department store signing copies of one of his books?

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

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

9. How does MLK describe what it would be like to be a Negro baby born and brought up in Birmingham?

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

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