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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. What day did the newspapers show pictures of woman on the ground with policemen bending over them with raised clubs and children being faced by dogs?
(a) May 5th.
(b) May 4th.
(c) May 2nd.
(d) May 3rd.

2. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The complacency of the courts.
(b) The ignorance of the white leaders.
(c) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.
(d) The slow pace of school desegregation.

3. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?
(a) More than four hundred and fifty million.
(b) More than three hundred and fifty million
(c) More than five hundred million.
(d) More than four hundred million.

4. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.

5. To the Negro in 1963 nonviolence could symbolize the "gold badge of heroism" rather than what?
(a) The yellow feather of humility.
(b) The white flag of surrender.
(c) The white feather of cowardice.
(d) The yellow flag of despair.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?

4. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?

5. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?

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