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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 was one of the most important parts of the mass meetings according to MLK?
(a) The recognition of leaders.
(b) The togetherness of the Negro community.
(c) The freedom songs.
(d) The education of the volunteers.

2. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The ignorance of the white leaders.
(b) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.
(c) The slow pace of school desegregation.
(d) The complacency of the courts.

3. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.

4. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.
(b) Picketing businesses.
(c) Demanding jobs.
(d) Sitting in at lunch counters.

5. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Arthur Shores.
(c) Wyatt Walker.
(d) Orzell Billingsley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?

3. The eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what?

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

5. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?

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