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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. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

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 sixty-five.
(c) About seventy.
(d) About fifty.

3. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?
(a) As maids.
(b) As breeders.
(c) As cooks.
(d) As wives.

4. To the Negro in 1963 nonviolence could symbolize the "gold badge of heroism" rather than what?
(a) The yellow feather of humility.
(b) The yellow flag of despair.
(c) The white flag of surrender.
(d) The white feather of cowardice.

5. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-four.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?

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

3. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

4. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

5. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

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