1. 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.

2. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Civil Rights.
(b) Equality.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Integration.

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and King.
(b) Walker and King.
(c) Boutwell and Connor.
(d) Connor and King.

4. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Integration.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Togetherness.
(d) Segregation.

5. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?
(a) As maids.
(b) As wives.
(c) As breeders.
(d) As cooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?

2. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

3. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?

4. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

5. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?

(see the answer key)

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