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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 quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?
(a) In our hearts.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In our mouth.
(d) On our love.

2. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) Lightning.
(c) An ocean wave.
(d) A river.

3. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?
(a) Warm.
(b) Placid.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Exuberant..

4. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?
(a) Sleeping on the job.
(b) Abusing a Negro.
(c) Not going to work.
(d) Jailing an innocent man or woman.

5. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Nonviolence.
(b) Integration.
(c) Civil Rights.
(d) Equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?

2. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?

3. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

4. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?

5. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?

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