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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 is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(b) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.
(c) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.
(d) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.

2. What is the name of the person whose doctrine is "no man is an island"?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Canon John Donne.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

3. When several hundred Birmingham Negros decided to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail where did they meet?
(a) New Zion Church.
(b) Birmingham City Hall.
(c) New Pilgrim Baptist Church.
(d) The Birmingham train station.

4. Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action?
(a) Because it was symbolic of Jesus rising on Easter morning.
(b) Because it helped the Negro community to remember their ties with God.
(c) Because it was the time after the election.
(d) Because besides Christmas it is the main shopping period of the year.

5. MLK talks about the fact that different organizations getting together for the unity of the movement is a remarkable feature of importance. He states that unity has never meant what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Uniformity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?

2. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?

3. Who said, "I wish he'd been carried away in a hearse" after they had heard that Fred Shuttlesworth was injured?

4. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?

5. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did MLK wonder about the media writers when they accused the campaign officials of "using" their children "in this fashion"?

3. 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?

4. In what case does MLK mention that it wouldn't profit a Negro parent to send his or her child to an integrated school?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. How many people were involved with the March on Washington, and what kind of people were involved?

10. What are the four basic steps in any nonviolent campaign that MLK mentions?

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