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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) South America.
(d) India.

2. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Demanding jobs.
(b) Sitting in at lunch counters.
(c) Picketing businesses.
(d) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.

3. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?
(a) Imagination and humbleness.
(b) Defeat and social movement.
(c) Time and action.
(d) Success and discovery.

4. 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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Edward Gardner.
(c) Bull Conner.
(d) Fred Shuttlesworth.

5. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?
(a) April 10th, 1963.
(b) April 4th, 1963.
(c) April 2nd, 1963.
(d) April 3rd, 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

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

3. Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City?

4. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?

5. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

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