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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 were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) In parks.
(b) At the Gaston motel.
(c) At churches.
(d) At lunch counters.

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

3. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) The White Citizen's Counciler.
(c) The white moderate.
(d) The Ku Klux Klanner.

4. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?
(a) Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"
(b) Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"
(c) Or are Negroes "really sure they are our equals?"
(d) Or are Negroes "walking a little straighter these days?"

5. 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?
(a) "The same as you."
(b) "To be like you."
(c) "F'eedom."
(d) "A house."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the person during an interview of the Indian government's Prime Minister who asked, "But isn't that discrimination?" when the Prime Minister said that their schools were required to accept an untouchable over another person of high caste?

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

4. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

5. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does MLK state that the American Negro knows through painful experience?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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