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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 did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on picketing.
(b) The city code on lunch counters.
(c) The city code on segregation.
(d) The city code on jail sentances.

2. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?
(a) Light.
(b) Words.
(c) Allies.
(d) Wanting.

3. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Equality.
(b) Civil Rights.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Integration.

4. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) An occurance.
(b) Followed.
(c) A real law.
(d) A fact.

5. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?
(a) On our love.
(b) In our hearts.
(c) In our mouth.
(d) On the streets.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?

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

5. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?

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