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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. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?
(a) Tables and lavatory.
(b) The lunch counter and water fountain.
(c) The water fountain and lavatory.
(d) The water fountain and tables.

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

3. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Miles Anderson.
(d) George Wallace.

4. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?
(a) Wyatt Walker.
(b) Harry Wagner.
(c) Harry Belafonte.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?
(a) Mournfully.
(b) Secretively.
(c) Silently.
(d) Easily.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?

3. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?

4. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?

5. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. What would happen if a volunteer did not pass the strict test for service as a demonstrator?

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

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

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

9. What happened soon after the Supreme Court had handed down a decree calling for desegregation of schools that discouraged MLK?

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

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