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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I See the Promised Land | Letter from Birmingham CityJail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. King wanted to point out that: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to ___________ everywhere."
(a) Justice.
(b) Peace.
(c) Truth.
(d) Learning.

2. America was fortunate, Dr. King said, that the strength of African American protesters was tempered by a sense of _____________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Witness.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) Violence.

3. Dr. King asked people around him to pray for peace and justice in the world as the Civil Rights movement was a __________ movement as well.
(a) African American.
(b) Bible.
(c) White.
(d) Spiritual.

4. ___________ not only harms one physically, but it injures one spiritually, according to Dr. King.
(a) Integration.
(b) Desegregation.
(c) Pain.
(d) Segregation.

5. Southern __________ continued to fight against the civil rights measures and bills being put before them.
(a) Mayors.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Churches.
(d) Senators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Token _________ are not satisfactory ends, according to Dr. King and to his writing and his speeches.

2. The United States had become an international power that was unable to enforce even _______________ in a Southern village.

3. One extreme of the movement was to use Black Power to overthrow the ________________ and the whites.

4. Economic power was available, according to Dr. King, to those who _____________ in this time of the world.

5. Where were the African Americans allowed to sit when they took a bus to get somewhere?

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