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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. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Integration Deliverance Law.
(b) The Pupil Placement Law.
(c) The Public School Law.
(d) The Negro Exclusion Law.

2. When MLK was autographing copies of his book in the Harlem department store, what was he stabbed with?
(a) A pocket knife.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A pointed stick.
(d) A razor blade.

3. 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.

4. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) City hall.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Lunch counters.
(d) Public parks.

5. The Negro Revolution is described as generating quietly just like what?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A river.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) An ocean wave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was every volunteer in Birmingham required to sign?

2. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?

3. When the city government obtained a court injunction to cease the activities of the "Negro army," what did MLK's group do?

4. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

5. When the Supreme Court modified its decision on school desegregation, what did it permit to corrupt its intent?

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