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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. When the young Negro started to ask someone to save him in the room filling with poisonous gas, why does MLK state that that person would care if the young Negro died?
(a) Because he freed the slaves long ago.
(b) Because he created all men as equals.
(c) Because he was a figure of civil rights.
(d) Because he was a Negro as well.

2. 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 five hundred million.
(c) More than four hundred million.
(d) More than three hundred and fifty million

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

4. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.
(b) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(c) That the white churches participated.
(d) That it was done in the nation's capital.

5. What was the next stage of the "crusade" that began on April 6th?
(a) A march on City Hall.
(b) A march on the city leader's homes.
(c) A march on the city merchants.
(d) A march on the city jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?

2. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"

3. When the Supreme Court modified its decision on school desegregation, what did it permit to corrupt its intent?

4. Who said, "I wish he'd been carried away in a hearse" after they had heard that Fred Shuttlesworth was injured?

5. What did the caption read on the front page of the Birmingham News that celebrated mayoral victory?

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