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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 talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?
(a) 120.
(b) 100.
(c) 95.
(d) 110.

2. What does MLK say was one of the wisest moves they made in the campaign?
(a) Having the marches during Easter.
(b) Targeting merchants.
(c) Involving Birmingham's children.
(d) Starting with sit-ins.

3. 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?
(a) Agreeable.
(b) Forthright.
(c) Daring.
(d) Conservative.

4. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That it was done in the nation's capital.
(b) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(c) That the white churches participated.
(d) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?

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

5. How many steps does MLK say that a nonviolent campaign has?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What does MLK say about injustice that explains why he felt like he needed to be involved with the city of Birmingham to help the civil rights movement?

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

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. 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?

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