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

2. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?
(a) "We are human beings too and deserve the chance for change."
(b) "We can make ourselves free."
(c) "We are in the right position to win."
(d) "We shall overcome."

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and King.
(b) Boutwell and Connor.
(c) Walker and King.
(d) Connor and King.

4. MLK states that the "summer of our discontent" brought white citizens closer into harmony with their Negro citizens instead of what?
(a) Pushing them together in a rage.
(b) Confusing the white citizens about what the Negro citizens want.
(c) Driving them further apart from their fellow Negro citizens.
(d) Alienating America's white citizens.

5. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on segregation.
(b) The city code on picketing.
(c) The city code on jail sentances.
(d) The city code on lunch counters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?

2. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"

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

4. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?

5. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?

(see the answer key)

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