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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. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?
(a) "Let us go out and stand tall in front of the white man."
(b) "Let us go out and take a stand against those who have wronged us."
(c) "Let us go out and whip the world."
(d) "Let us go out and fight until death."

2. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Integration.
(b) Togetherness.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Segregation.

3. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Remorsefully.
(b) Mournfully.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Easily.

4. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?
(a) Room 40.
(b) Room 15.
(c) Room 20.
(d) Room 30.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

2. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?

3. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?

4. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

5. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What did people have to do after they volunteered and walked up front to shake hands with the leaders of the campaign?

6. 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.

7. Shortly after the S.C.L.C. convention took place in September of 1962, how were Fred Shuttlesworth's fears justified?

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

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

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

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