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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 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.

2. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?
(a) Rip Van Winkle slumber.
(b) Winter slumber.
(c) Restless slumber.
(d) Continuous slumber.

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

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

5. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?
(a) They were ready to send them to another country.
(b) They were ready to build a new ghetto for him.
(c) They were ready to hold their hands and help them find a new life.
(d) They were ready to have them move into society with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

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

3. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?

4. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

5. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?

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