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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. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?
(a) The third week in March.
(b) The second week in April.
(c) The fourth week in March.
(d) The first week in April.

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

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

4. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"
(a) The state of Alabama.
(b) The United States.
(c) The earth.
(d) Any of the southern states.

5. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?
(a) God.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Joe Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?

2. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?

3. 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?

4. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?

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

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