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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. MLK states that when anyone would speak with President Eisenhower about racial justice they would come away with what?
(a) A feeling of power.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Postive outlook on the future of the nation.
(d) Mixed emotions.

2. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) An occurance.
(b) A real law.
(c) Followed.
(d) A fact.

3. MLK talks about one of the most poignant replies to a question. It came from a girl who was not more than eight that answered a police officer's question of "what do you want?" with what reply?
(a) "The same as you."
(b) "F'eedom."
(c) "To be like you."
(d) "A house."

4. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.
(b) Demanding jobs.
(c) Sitting in at lunch counters.
(d) Picketing businesses.

5. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?

2. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?

3. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?

4. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?

5. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?

(see the answer key)

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