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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. 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"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.

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

3. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"
(a) Any of the southern states.
(b) The earth.
(c) The United States.
(d) The state of Alabama.

4. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?
(a) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.
(b) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.
(c) That she can't go to a public park.
(d) Why white people beat the Negro people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK say was one of the wisest moves they made in the campaign?

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

3. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?

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

5. What kind of acceptance does MLK say is more bewildering than outright rejection?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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