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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Days to Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?
(a) Reading from the Bible.
(b) Calling the men by name.
(c) Singing a song.
(d) Crying and begging the men to stop.

2. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?
(a) That she can't go to a public park.
(b) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.
(c) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.
(d) Why white people beat the Negro people.

3. When the crusade started marching from Zion Hill church, how far were they permitted to march?
(a) Six or seven blocks.
(b) Seven or eight blocks.
(c) Nine or ten blocks.
(d) Eight or nine blocks.

4. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) Unity.
(b) No more acceptance of brutality.
(c) The conviction that we were right.
(d) Non-violence.

5. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Orphan Annie.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

Short Answer Questions

1. A day was set as "D" day, when students would go to jail in historical numbers. What day was "D" day?

2. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?

3. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

4. What is the name of Martin Luther King's wife?

5. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?

(see the answer key)

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