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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. The merchants that were a part of the Senior Citizens Committee that met with the campaign leaders went back on their agreement. What was the rumor for the reason of what the merchants did?
(a) That they didn't think it would matter and so they went back on their agreement.
(b) That the Negros didn't follow through with their end of the agreement.
(c) They didn't like that not all the merchants followed the agreement so they didn't want to follow it either.
(d) That Bull Conner had threatened some of the merchants.

2. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Remorsefully.
(c) Mournfully.
(d) Quietly.

3. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Integration.
(d) Togetherness.

4. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?
(a) "Let us go out and fight until death."
(b) "Let us go out and stand tall in front of the white man."
(c) "Let us go out and whip the world."
(d) "Let us go out and take a stand against those who have wronged us."

5. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?
(a) King and Conner.
(b) Boutwell and Conner.
(c) Boutwell and King.
(d) King and Walker.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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