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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 was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?
(a) John Drew.
(b) Edward Gardner.
(c) A.G. Gaston.
(d) Arthur Shores.

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

3. What kind of acceptance does MLK say is more bewildering than outright rejection?
(a) Lukewarm.
(b) Undecided.
(c) Various.
(d) Hidden.

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

5. MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what?
(a) Riding his bicycle.
(b) Playing kickball with some friends.
(c) Eating an ice cream cone.
(d) Kicking a can around the neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?

2. Who was MLK's executive assistant?

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?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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