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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. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Compliance.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Confrontation.

2. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(b) That it was done in the nation's capital.
(c) That the white churches participated.
(d) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.

3. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on jail sentances.
(b) The city code on segregation.
(c) The city code on picketing.
(d) The city code on lunch counters.

4. When MLK talks of the good will withering he tells of the City Council refusing to do what?
(a) Abandon prejudice thoughts.
(b) Appoint Negro policemen.
(c) Acknowledge Negro leadership.
(d) Willingly accepting the Negro's cries for help.

5. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?
(a) A turtle's pace.
(b) A horse-and-buggy pace.
(c) A snail's pace.
(d) A maple syrup pace.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?

2. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?

3. MLK talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?

4. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?

5. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?

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