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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. How many cities are mentioned to be in civil turmoil in the beginning of "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963"?
(a) Almost two hundred.
(b) Almost one thousand.
(c) Almost three hundred and fifty.
(d) Almost one thousand five hundred.

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

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

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

5. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Sitting in at lunch counters.
(b) Demanding jobs.
(c) Picketing businesses.
(d) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK states that the Negro turned his back on force because he knew he couldn't win through physical force, and he also believed he could lose what?

2. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?

3. 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"?

4. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?

5. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?

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