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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Summer of Our Discontent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) Signs with only white people on them.
(b) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(c) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.
(d) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.

2. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?
(a) Savannah.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Birmingham.

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Connor and King.
(b) Walker and King.
(c) Boutwell and King.
(d) Boutwell and Connor.

4. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?
(a) The third week in March.
(b) The fourth week in March.
(c) The second week in April.
(d) The first week in April.

5. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) Lunch counters.
(b) City hall.
(c) Public parks.
(d) Merchants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?

2. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

3. When MLK talks of the good will withering he tells of the City Council refusing to do what?

4. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

5. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

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