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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?
(a) The sinfulness of the bad people.
(b) The fear of the good people.
(c) The brutality of the bad people.
(d) The silence of the good people.

2. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) City hall.
(b) Public parks.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Lunch counters.

3. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Eighty-five.

4. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?
(a) Their devotion to family.
(b) Their desire to be a whole nation.
(c) Their sense of justice.
(d) Their boldness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?

2. Who was MLK's executive assistant?

3. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?

4. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?

5. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

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