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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. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?
(a) Mournfully.
(b) Silently.
(c) Easily.
(d) Secretively.

2. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-four.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Twenty-five.

3. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why people are different.
(b) Why they don't like them.
(c) To be carried on their shoulders.
(d) To be locked up.

4. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) Two hundred fifty.
(d) Two hundred.

5. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their golf team.
(b) Their baseball team.
(c) Their football team.
(d) Their soccer team.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?

2. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?

3. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?

4. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

5. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?

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