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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New Day in Birmingham.

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

2. 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?
(a) India.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) South America.

3. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?
(a) April 10th, 1963.
(b) April 4th, 1963.
(c) April 3rd, 1963.
(d) April 2nd, 1963.

4. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Take their children on a march.
(b) Talk back to a white man.
(c) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(d) Stand up for injustice.

5. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?
(a) About fifty.
(b) About forty-five.
(c) About sixty-five.
(d) About seventy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?

2. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?

3. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?

4. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?

5. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?

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