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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. The white power structure perpetuated the __________ that African Americans were moving too fast.
(a) Argument.
(b) Myth.
(c) Law.
(d) Speech.

2. Even in their poverty, the ___________ of the United States had greater economic power strength than most countries of the world.
(a) Children.
(b) Whites.
(c) African Americans.
(d) Poor.

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) Bible.
(b) African American.
(c) White.
(d) Spiritual.

4. The United States had become an international power that was unable to enforce even _______________ in a Southern village.
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Order.
(c) Elementary law.
(d) The Constitution.

5. Dr. King believed that unselfishly giving of themselves would help to develop a powerful ___________.
(a) Government.
(b) Family.
(c) Nation.
(d) Schooling system.

Short Answer Questions

1. America was fortunate, Dr. King said, that the strength of African American protesters was tempered by a sense of _____________.

2. ___________ not only harms one physically, but it injures one spiritually, according to Dr. King.

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

4. Dr. King believed the commitment to nonviolence would prevent an increase of ___________ in society.

5. There was an obligation to ensure that all __________________ participated in the enforcement and creative innovations freeing all citizens.

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