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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. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?
(a) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.
(b) Why white people beat the Negro people.
(c) That she can't go to a public park.
(d) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.

2. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"
(a) A Testament of Hope.
(b) By My Words.
(c) Stride Toward Freedom.
(d) I Have A Dream.

3. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?
(a) The city jail.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Arthur Shores.

4. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Jim Bevel.
(d) Charles Billups.

5. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Archelaus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

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

3. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?

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

5. Who was MLK's executive assistant?

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