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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 Days To Come," MLK talks about Negros knowing political assassination well and that it was a common place thing to witness or hear about. What was the name of the person who was shot to death on the steps of a rural courthouse?
(a) William Moore.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Kenneth Jacobs.
(d) George Lee.

2. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Civil Rights.
(b) Integration.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Equality.

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

4. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?
(a) That the Negro community did not know how to survive without the white man.
(b) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.
(c) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(d) That he, as a Negro, was inferior.

5. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?
(a) Hubert Humphrey.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Richard Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

2. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?

4. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

5. The first requirement of a volunteer's pledge was to do what daily?

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