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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 "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) Fred Shuttlesworth
(b) Miles Anderson.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) George Wallace.

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

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

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

5. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(b) That "an unjust law is still a law."
(c) That "an unjust law is no law at all."
(d) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

2. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?

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

4. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?

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

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