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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. 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) Jailing an innocent man or woman.
(d) Not going to work.

2. 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..

3. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Mournfully.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Remorsefully.

4. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?
(a) As breeders.
(b) As cooks.
(c) As wives.
(d) As maids.

5. What does MLK talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) National Currency Act.
(c) The Homestead Act.
(d) Thanksgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?

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

3. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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