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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 mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?
(a) Or are Negroes "walking a little straighter these days?"
(b) Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"
(c) Or are Negroes "really sure they are our equals?"
(d) Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"

2. When the Supreme Court modified its decision on school desegregation, what did it permit to corrupt its intent?
(a) Outside leaders.
(b) Integration.
(c) Tokenism.
(d) Somebodiness.

3. What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"?
(a) The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.
(b) The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.
(c) That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.
(d) Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.

4. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) Roger Blough.
(d) Whitney Young, Jr.

5. Whose descendants showed up with banners saying, "Order Before Justice"?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Sidney Lanier.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days had MLK and Ralph Abernathy been in jail when they accepted bond to come out?

2. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?

3. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

4. After the President of the United States told the nation he would not allow extremists to sabotage a fair and just pact, how many federal troops did he order into Birmingham?

5. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

(see the answer key)

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