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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 kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?
(a) A maple syrup pace.
(b) A horse-and-buggy pace.
(c) A snail's pace.
(d) A turtle's pace.

2. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?
(a) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(b) Columbia, South Carolina.
(c) Savannah, Georgia.
(d) Nashville, Tennessee.

3. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?
(a) Eight.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Seven.

4. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?
(a) In anger.
(b) In acceptance.
(c) In violence.
(d) In genocide.

5. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?
(a) The Wagner Act.
(b) The National Anthem.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Constitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. President Kennedy once said something to MLK in the White House about not being too harsh on the judgment of someone. Who was the person that President Kennedy was speaking about?

2. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

3. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

4. MLK states that throughout their campaign they had been seeking to establish dialogue with the city leaders to negotiate how many major issues?

5. What does MLK state is the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does MLK answer the questions of the clergymen of "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Aren't negotiations better?"

2. Why does MLK state that "we were all involved with" John F. Kennedy's death?

3. What is the relevant question that MLK mentions that must be asked to atone for the injustices the Negro has faced in the past?

4. Why does MLK state that no revolution is like a ballet?

5. Why does MLK state that they could thank the segregationists for the revolution that started in Birmingham?

6. When MLK talks about the number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumping from 85 to 100, he mentions that more than one million Americans attended solidarity demonstrations in what cities?

7. How does MLK describe the "two" John Kennedys that he knew?

8. What did scientific observers place in the sealed death chambers where poison gas was to be administered to the victims of capital punishment?

9. What did MLK and the S.C.L.C. officers want to do to bring a new dynamic to the campaign that would receive criticism?

10. What did approximately 125 business leaders see when they left for lunch during the May 7th Senior Citizens Committee meeting?

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