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

2. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?
(a) By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.
(b) By throwing rocks and bottles.
(c) By helping up the beaten marchers.
(d) By yelling and threatening the police officers.

3. What is the name of the person whose doctrine is "no man is an island"?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Canon John Donne.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Bull Connor.

4. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

5. 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) Agreeable.
(c) Forthright.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?

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. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust 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?

5. When MLK talks of the good will withering he tells of the City Council refusing to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

7. What did MLK wonder about the media writers when they accused the campaign officials of "using" their children "in this fashion"?

8. 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?

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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