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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 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?
(a) Savannah, Georgia.
(b) Nashville, Tennessee.
(c) Columbia, South Carolina.
(d) Greensboro, North Carolina.

2. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Paul.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

4. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?
(a) Violence.
(b) Tension.
(c) Adversary.
(d) Hate.

5. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Archelaus.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?

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

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

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

5. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How does MLK answer the questions of the clergymen of "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Aren't negotiations better?"

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

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

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

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

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

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