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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. A day was set as "D" day, when students would go to jail in historical numbers. What day was "D" day?
(a) May 2nd.
(b) May 4th.
(c) May 1st.
(d) May 3rd.

2. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Mowgli.
(c) Orphan Annie.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

3. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty-five.
(d) Seventy-five.

4. 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 Bill of Rights.
(b) The Wagner Act.
(c) The National Anthem.
(d) The Constitution.

5. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?
(a) "We shall overcome."
(b) "We are in the right position to win."
(c) "We are human beings too and deserve the chance for change."
(d) "We can make ourselves free."

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?

2. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

3. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?

4. Who was the person during an interview of the Indian government's Prime Minister who asked, "But isn't that discrimination?" when the Prime Minister said that their schools were required to accept an untouchable over another person of high caste?

5. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When MLK is discussing the difference between a revolt and a revolution, what does he state a revolt is?

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

3. 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?

4. After Bull Connor asks his men to "turn on the hoses" on the Negros marching to a prayer meeting, MLK describes the event as one of the most fantastic events of the Birmingham story. Why?

5. What does MLK state that the American Negro knows through painful experience?

6. What significant change in employment patterns does MLK talk about taking shape?

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

8. What does MLK say about injustice that explains why he felt like he needed to be involved with the city of Birmingham to help the civil rights movement?

9. What does MLK mention in "The Days to Come" that would immediately transform the conditions of Negro life?

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

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