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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 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?
(a) May 4th.
(b) May 3rd.
(c) May 5th.
(d) May 2nd.

2. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(b) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.
(c) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.
(d) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.

3. In "The Days To Come," MLK talks about Negros knowing political assassination well and that it was a common place thing to witness or hear about. What was the name of the person who was shot to death on the steps of a rural courthouse?
(a) William Moore.
(b) George Lee.
(c) Medgar Evers.
(d) Kenneth Jacobs.

4. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?
(a) Savannah.
(b) New York City.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Atlanta.

5. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Whitney Young, Jr.
(d) Roger Blough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?

2. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?

3. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?

4. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?

5. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did MLK and the S.C.L.C. officers want to do to bring a new dynamic to the campaign that would receive criticism?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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