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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. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?
(a) The third week in March.
(b) The first week in April.
(c) The fourth week in March.
(d) The second week in April.

2. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Custodians.
(c) Nurses.
(d) Window cleaners.

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

4. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Integration Deliverance Law.
(b) The Negro Exclusion Law.
(c) The Pupil Placement Law.
(d) The Public School Law.

5. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?
(a) House-size.
(b) Skyscraper-size.
(c) Room-size.
(d) Horse-size.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?

2. 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"?

3. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

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

5. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?

(see the answer key)

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