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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sword That Heals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?
(a) Finding a job.
(b) Cleaning the streets.
(c) Registering voters.
(d) Collecting evidence of integration.

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

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

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

5. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Stand up for injustice.
(b) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(c) Talk back to a white man.
(d) Take their children on a march.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?

2. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?

3. MLK mentions that the nation could not have been more amazed if what type of machines had turned human and stalked the lands?

4. At the beginning of 1963, how many negro students were attending integrated schools?

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?

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