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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. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and Connor.
(b) Connor and King.
(c) Boutwell and King.
(d) Walker and King.

2. Who was MLK's executive assistant?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(b) Tom King.
(c) Albert Boutwell.
(d) Wyatt Tee Walker.

3. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) City hall.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Lunch counters.
(d) Public parks.

4. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Fred Shuttlesworth.
(c) Bull Conner.
(d) Edward Gardner.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove 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. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For years, why did the white segregationists say that the Negro was "satisfied"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In the second section of Bull Connor's Birmingham, what does MLK state that the one threat to the reign of white supremacy in Birmingham was?

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

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