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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) Secretively.
(b) Mournfully.
(c) Silently.
(d) Easily.

2. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

3. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To divide it.
(b) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(c) To persuade them to your side.
(d) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.

4. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?
(a) The need to stay.
(b) Family.
(c) Physical force.
(d) Chains and rope.

5. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Negro Exclusion Law.
(b) The Public School Law.
(c) The Pupil Placement Law.
(d) The Integration Deliverance Law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Sword That Heals," what does MLK mention was no longer a disgrace, but a badge of honor?

3. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?

4. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?

5. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?

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