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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. 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?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?
(a) Because there is injustice in Birmingham.
(b) Because someone asked him to come.
(c) Because he could get a lot of exposure if he came to Birmingham.
(d) Because his wife wanted him to go.

3. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?
(a) Riding his bicycle.
(b) Kicking a can around the neighborhood.
(c) Playing kickball with some friends.
(d) Eating an ice cream cone.

4. What was the name of the assistant deputy attorney general that the Attorney General dispatched on May 4th?
(a) Burke Marshall.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Charles Billups.
(d) Joseph F. Dolan.

5. 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) Savannah, Georgia.
(b) Nashville, Tennessee.
(c) Columbia, South Carolina.
(d) Greensboro, North Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"

2. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?

3. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?

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

5. MLK discusses the fact that the Negro knows he is right in pursuing his rights in unity of the movement and quotes someone as saying, "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too" what?

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 mention in "The Days to Come" that would immediately transform the conditions of Negro life?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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