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

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

3. 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) 110.
(b) 95.
(c) 100.
(d) 120.

4. 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?
(a) The National Anthem.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Wagner Act.

5. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?
(a) Because he was a Negro as well.
(b) Because he freed the slaves long ago.
(c) Because he created all men as equals.
(d) Because he was a figure of civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mahatma Gandi do in moral leadership to set an example for his nation?

2. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

3. What was the name of the assistant deputy attorney general that the Attorney General dispatched on May 4th?

4. MLK states that throughout their campaign they had been seeking to establish dialogue with the city leaders to negotiate how many major issues?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. In what case does MLK mention that it wouldn't profit a Negro parent to send his or her child to an integrated school?

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

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