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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?
(a) Room 40.
(b) Room 15.
(c) Room 30.
(d) Room 20.

2. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?
(a) The sinfulness of the bad people.
(b) The fear of the good people.
(c) The silence of the good people.
(d) The brutality of the bad people.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?

2. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?

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

4. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

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

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