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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Greenwood and Birmingham Jail,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?
(a) Gandhi
(b) Kafka
(c) Nietzsche
(d) Marx

2. What does King study in his father's house in this chapter?
(a) Frederick Douglas
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Adolf Hitler
(d) Jan Hus

3. What do the Alabama police charge King with?
(a) Perjury
(b) Tax evasion
(c) Murder
(d) Speeding

4. Which comedian join the marches in Greenwood?
(a) Lenny Bruce
(b) Bill Crosby
(c) Dick Gregory
(d) Richard Pryor

5. Why is there a riot at the University of Alabama?
(a) The University hires a Negro teacher
(b) A Negro woman tries to enroll
(c) The KKK bomb a classroom
(d) Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech on campus

Short Answer Questions

1. What African country does King fly to?

2. What did Truman desegregate in the Forties?

3. What does King ask people to do for those Negroes who have yet to learn the non-violent ways?

4. Who do demonstrators kill outside the Lyceum?

5. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?

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