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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 law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Public School Law.
(b) The Integration Deliverance Law.
(c) The Pupil Placement Law.
(d) The Negro Exclusion Law.

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

3. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?
(a) Family.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Chains and rope.
(d) The need to stay.

4. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

5. 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?
(a) The first week in April.
(b) The fourth week in March.
(c) The second week in April.
(d) The third week in March.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?

2. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?

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

4. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?

5. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. How does MLK describe tokenism as thwarting the dreams of the Negro population's dreams and aspirations?

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

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

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

10. What was the first major decision that the planning committee faced when they were discussing "Project C," and what was the conclusion they came to?

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