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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. 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) Daring.
(b) Forthright.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Agreeable.

3. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."
(b) That "an unjust law is no law at all."
(c) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(d) That "an unjust law is still a law."

4. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?
(a) Mowgli.
(b) Orphan Annie.
(c) Oliver Twist.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

5. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?
(a) Easy to endure.
(b) Effective.
(c) Well timed.
(d) Not needed.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?

3. 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?

4. When several hundred Birmingham Negros decided to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail where did they meet?

5. In his letter, MLK states that he has heard the word "Wait!" for years and that this word "Wait!" has always meant what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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 state that the American Negro knows through painful experience?

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

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

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