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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. Token _________ are not satisfactory ends, according to Dr. King and to his writing and his speeches.
(a) Beginnings.
(b) Truths.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Martyrs.

2. 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) Spiritual.
(c) African American.
(d) White.

3. Dr. King believed the commitment to nonviolence would prevent an increase of ___________ in society.
(a) Movement.
(b) Peace.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Hatred.

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

5. Where were the African Americans allowed to sit when they took a bus to get somewhere?
(a) Hanging from the side.
(b) Back.
(c) Front.
(d) Nowhere.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Even in their poverty, the ___________ of the United States had greater economic power strength than most countries of the world.

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

4. What would have happened if African American people refused to give up their seats to a white person?

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

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