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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. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?
(a) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.
(b) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(c) That the Negro community did not know how to survive without the white man.
(d) That he, as a Negro, was inferior.

2. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(b) Scars of deep grievances.
(c) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

3. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?
(a) Imagination and humbleness.
(b) Success and discovery.
(c) Time and action.
(d) Defeat and social movement.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?

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

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

4. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?

5. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Marcus Garvey propose to the Negro race, and why was his plan doomed according to MLK?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. What are some of the words that John F. Kennedy uttered on June 11th, 1963?

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

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