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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. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Miles Anderson.
(d) Bull Connor.

2. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?
(a) In anger.
(b) In genocide.
(c) In violence.
(d) In acceptance.

3. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?
(a) Because he was a figure of civil rights.
(b) Because he freed the slaves long ago.
(c) Because he was a Negro as well.
(d) Because he created all men as equals.

4. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Paul.
(d) Martin Luther.

5. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?
(a) Closed down the parks.
(b) Still left signs up that said, "no colored allowed."
(c) Appealed to the courts.
(d) Rioted in the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

2. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?

3. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?

4. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?

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

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