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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 did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their golf team.
(b) Their baseball team.
(c) Their football team.
(d) Their soccer team.

2. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?
(a) Violence.
(b) Adversary.
(c) Hate.
(d) Tension.

3. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?
(a) About forty-five.
(b) About sixty-five.
(c) About fifty.
(d) About seventy.

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

5. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chattanooga.
(d) Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?

2. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?

3. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?

4. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

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

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