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

2. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?
(a) Because they would lose their job.
(b) Because they would be sold to another owner.
(c) Because they wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.
(d) Because they would not get to see their family.

3. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?
(a) That you won't know where your next meal will come from.
(b) To expect a severe beating.
(c) Liberty.
(d) That your cause did not go unnoticed.

4. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(b) Scars of deep grievances.
(c) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

5. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?
(a) Rioted in the streets.
(b) Appealed to the courts.
(c) Closed down the parks.
(d) Still left signs up that said, "no colored allowed."

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

2. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?

3. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?

4. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?

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

(see the answer key)

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