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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 nation had come to count on the Negro to suffer how?
(a) Mournfully.
(b) Secretively.
(c) Silently.
(d) Easily.

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

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

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

5. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) To be carried on their shoulders.
(b) Why they don't like them.
(c) Why people are different.
(d) To be locked up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?

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

3. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?

4. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?

5. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?

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