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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?

3. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

4. MLK states that when anyone would speak with President Eisenhower about racial justice they would come away with what?

5. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How many people were involved with the March on Washington, and what kind of people were involved?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. What did approximately 125 business leaders see when they left for lunch during the May 7th Senior Citizens Committee meeting?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think there was a need for an afterward in this book? Why do you think Jesse Jackson was the person to write this afterward? How does Jesse Jackson compare the time mentioned in the book to the time the afterward was written (1999)? How does Jesse Jackson honor MLK in his words in the afterward? What does Jesse Jackson suggest for the nations future?

Essay Topic 2

Who is your favorite person in the book? Why did this person appeal to you? What characteristics did you like about this person? Were there any characteristics you didn't like about this person? Why? What does this person add to the book, and how does this person relate to the events and to MLK? How would the events have changed if this person did not exist? Would anything remain the same if this person was absent? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions a man named Marcus Garvey. Who was Marcus Garvey, and what was his involvement with the Negro population in America? What type of movement did Garvey call for? Why does MLK state that Garvey's plan was doomed? Do you think most of the Negro population felt the same way? Why or why not? After the "death" of the Garvey movement, what was the new development that was conducted by the N.A.A.C.P.?

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