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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. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) John Lewis.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Charles Morgan.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) Jim Bevel.
(c) Charles Billups.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that white people don't understand that it is no more possible to be half free than what?

2. MLK talks about one of the most poignant replies to a question. It came from a girl who was not more than eight that answered a police officer's question of "what do you want?" with what reply?

3. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?

4. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?

5. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the campaign had sent out a request for volunteers, what did the six tiny youngsters ask Andy Young, and what did they do to help the movement?

2. What does MLK say is the difference between just laws and unjust laws?

3. In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," who is the letter addressed to and why is it written?

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

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

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

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

8. What were the two reasons that MLK accepted bond to come out of jail in the beginning of "Black and White Together"?

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

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

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