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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. How many steps does MLK say that a nonviolent campaign has?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

3. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?
(a) Harry Wagner.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Wyatt Walker.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. In the beginning of "The Summer of Our Discontent," what famous person does MLK mention came to join the ranks of people?
(a) Muhammad Ali.
(b) Joe Louis.
(c) Charles Carroll.
(d) Floyd Patterson.

5. 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 fifty.
(c) About sixty-five.
(d) About seventy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

2. 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?

3. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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