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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. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

2. In the beginning of "The Summer of Our Discontent," what famous person does MLK mention came to join the ranks of people?

3. Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action?

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

5. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Jesse Jackson's afterward, he describes some of the impacts and results that the movement in Birmingham had on the country and on the south. He speaks about Atlanta being able to host the Olympics and Orlando being about to be the number one tourist destination in the country. None of this would have been possible in the Old South. What does Jesse Jackson describe as different as far as the nation's Presidents are concerned? What does Jackson mean when he says that "great change rarely comes from the top down"? What does that quote have to do with this book? Explain your answers, and use specific examples from the book to support your views.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of your favorite words that MLK writes? Why did these words appeal to you more than others? What kind of feelings did these words evoke in you as a reader? How do you think MLK was feeling at the time he wrote these particular words? Explain the reason for picking the particular excerpts. How do you think MLK changed as a person during the events of this book? Explain your reasoning by using specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions the meaning of tokenism and the use of it during the times of the marches, revolution, and meetings between leaders. What is tokenism? MLK states that Negroes condemned the form of tokenism that is an end in itself. He says that this type of tokenism is there not to begin a process but to end the process of protest and pressure. Why would this be considered to be a hypocritical gesture? How is tokenism being used during the events MLK describes in Birmingham? Why were there some that argued in favor of tokenism?

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