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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?
(a) Defeat and social movement.
(b) Success and discovery.
(c) Imagination and humbleness.
(d) Time and action.

2. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Miles Anderson.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Fred Shuttlesworth

3. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?
(a) Restless slumber.
(b) Winter slumber.
(c) Continuous slumber.
(d) Rip Van Winkle slumber.

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. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(b) Scars of deep grievances.
(c) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?

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

3. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?

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

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

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