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

2. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) New York City.
(d) Atlanta.

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The complacency of the courts.
(b) The ignorance of the white leaders.
(c) The slow pace of school desegregation.
(d) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.

4. How many cities are mentioned to be in civil turmoil in the beginning of "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963"?
(a) Almost three hundred and fifty.
(b) Almost one thousand.
(c) Almost one thousand five hundred.
(d) Almost two hundred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK see as the great stumbling block that the Negros face?

2. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?

3. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?

4. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?

5. What is the name of Martin Luther King's wife?

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