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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Days to Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 five hundred million.
(b) More than four hundred and fifty million.
(c) More than four hundred million.
(d) More than three hundred and fifty million

2. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That the white churches participated.
(b) That it was done in the nation's capital.
(c) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(d) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.

3. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?
(a) Honorable and wise.
(b) Unwise and untimely.
(c) Desirable and praiseworthy.
(d) Selfish and Ugly.

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

5. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) The conviction that we were right.
(b) No more acceptance of brutality.
(c) Non-violence.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

2. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?

3. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

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

5. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?

(see the answer key)

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