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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black and White Together.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?
(a) Congratulate the winner.
(b) Embrace the newly elected Mayor.
(c) Acknowledge the people that voted for them.
(d) Move out of their City Hall offices.

3. After the President of the United States told the nation he would not allow extremists to sabotage a fair and just pact, how many federal troops did he order into Birmingham?
(a) Two thousand five hundred.
(b) Three thousand.
(c) Three thousand five hundred.
(d) Two thousand.

4. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?
(a) More than four hundred and fifty million.
(b) More than three hundred and fifty million
(c) More than four hundred million.
(d) More than five hundred million.

5. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?
(a) Defeat and social movement.
(b) Success and discovery.
(c) Time and action.
(d) Imagination and humbleness.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?

2. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?

3. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to wait how?

4. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?

5. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?

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