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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. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.
(b) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.
(c) Signs with only white people on them.
(d) The jim-crow signs from their stores.

2. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?
(a) Abusing a Negro.
(b) Jailing an innocent man or woman.
(c) Sleeping on the job.
(d) Not going to work.

3. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?
(a) The Homestead Act.
(b) National Currency Act.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Thanksgiving.

4. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?
(a) Harlem Hospital.
(b) New York Presbyterian Hospital.
(c) South End Hospital.
(d) North General Hospital.

5. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2054.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?

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

3. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?

4. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?

5. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?

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