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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 kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?

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

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

4. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?

5. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book we meet an individual named Harry Belafonte. He is a friend of MLK and a supporter of the S.C.L.C. What significance does Belafonte have? MLK describes Belafonte as being totally involved in anything he takes on. How was he involved with the campaign? How was Belafonte involved when MLK was sent to jail? Do you think Belafonte was just involved because MLK was an old friend? What hope do you think he saw in the campaign in Birmingham?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book we read about fear and experience this frequently. MLK mention's that Bull Connor's Birmingham had the silent password of fear. The black people were oppressed, so there was fear. Why does MLK say the white citizens were fearful? Why did the thought of change bring fear among Negros and white citizens too? Why and how did Bull Connor strike a sense of fear in the city? What other instances of fear do you find in the book?

Essay Topic 3

In this book there are times when the reader can learn interesting facts about things that they might not have known previously. What things in the book are educational, and what new things did you learn? Was there anything you learned that you had never heard of? If so, what was it? Were there particular things that you had heard of but learned about in more detail? If so, what things were they?

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