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

2. In 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(b) Take their children on a march.
(c) Stand up for injustice.
(d) Talk back to a white man.

3. How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality?
(a) By yelling and threatening the police officers.
(b) By helping up the beaten marchers.
(c) By throwing rocks and bottles.
(d) By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.

4. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?
(a) Edward Gardner.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Bull Conner.
(d) Fred Shuttlesworth.

5. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) James Farmer.
(c) Charles Morgan.
(d) John Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?

3. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?

4. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?

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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