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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. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?
(a) The lunch counter and water fountain.
(b) The water fountain and lavatory.
(c) The water fountain and tables.
(d) Tables and lavatory.

2. 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 forty-five.
(b) About fifty.
(c) About seventy.
(d) About sixty-five.

3. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?
(a) Singing a song.
(b) Crying and begging the men to stop.
(c) Reading from the Bible.
(d) Calling the men by name.

4. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?
(a) 350.
(b) 150.
(c) 250.
(d) 200.

5. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?
(a) Liberty.
(b) That your cause did not go unnoticed.
(c) To expect a severe beating.
(d) That you won't know where your next meal will come from.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

2. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?

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

4. When MLK was autographing copies of his book in the Harlem department store, what was he stabbed with?

5. What did the caption read on the front page of the Birmingham News that celebrated mayoral victory?

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