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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 horse-and-buggy pace.
(b) A snail's pace.
(c) A turtle's pace.
(d) A maple syrup pace.

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) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Canon John Donne.

3. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?
(a) The white moderate.
(b) The White Citizen's Counciler.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) The Ku Klux Klanner.

4. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) At lunch counters.
(b) At churches.
(c) In parks.
(d) At the Gaston motel.

5. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?
(a) By helping up the beaten marchers.
(b) By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.
(c) By throwing rocks and bottles.
(d) By yelling and threatening the police officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the assistant deputy attorney general that the Attorney General dispatched on May 4th?

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

3. What day did the newspapers show pictures of woman on the ground with policemen bending over them with raised clubs and children being faced by dogs?

4. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

5. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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