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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. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?
(a) April 2nd, 1963.
(b) April 3rd, 1963.
(c) April 4th, 1963.
(d) April 10th, 1963.

2. 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 fourth week in March.
(c) The second week in April.
(d) The first week in April.

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?
(a) In our mouth.
(b) On our love.
(c) In our hearts.
(d) On the streets.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?

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

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

4. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?

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

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