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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 Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) A real law.
(b) Followed.
(c) An occurance.
(d) A fact.

2. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(b) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.
(c) To persuade them to your side.
(d) To divide it.

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?
(a) Cleaning the streets.
(b) Collecting evidence of integration.
(c) Registering voters.
(d) Finding a job.

4. The first requirement of a volunteer's pledge was to do what daily?
(a) Meditate on the teachings and life of Jesus.
(b) Pray for the saving grace of God.
(c) Know the laws of the land and not break them.
(d) Exercise and stay in shape.

5. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?
(a) Europe.
(b) South America.
(c) Africa.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What is the name of Martin Luther King's wife?

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

5. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which two revolutions in history does MLK liken the civil turmoil and violence of the Negro's "battle" to?

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

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

4. What was George Wallace's inauguration vow?

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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?

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