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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 eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what?
(a) Sword.
(b) Heart.
(c) Soul.
(d) Knife.

2. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

3. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?
(a) Arthur Shores.
(b) Edward Gardner.
(c) John Drew.
(d) A.G. Gaston.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?

2. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

3. How many cities are mentioned to be in civil turmoil in the beginning of "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963"?

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. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What were the invitational periods at the mass meetings for?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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