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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Silently.
(c) Mournfully.
(d) Secretively.

2. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?
(a) An ocean wave.
(b) Lightning.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A river.

3. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?
(a) A campaign.
(b) A democracy.
(c) A coholition.
(d) A revolution.

4. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?
(a) The Wagner Act.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The National Anthem.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?

2. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"

3. Which of Jesus's apostles does MLK liken himself to in his letter to the clergymen?

4. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

5. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?

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