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

2. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?
(a) The lunch counter and water fountain.
(b) The water fountain and tables.
(c) Tables and lavatory.
(d) The water fountain and lavatory.

3. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?
(a) Jailing an innocent man or woman.
(b) Abusing a Negro.
(c) Not going to work.
(d) Sleeping on the job.

4. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(b) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(c) Scars of deep grievances.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

5. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Quietly.
(c) Remorsefully.
(d) Mournfully.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does MLK state is the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity?

3. Who was the person during an interview of the Indian government's Prime Minister who asked, "But isn't that discrimination?" when the Prime Minister said that their schools were required to accept an untouchable over another person of high caste?

4. President Kennedy once said something to MLK in the White House about not being too harsh on the judgment of someone. Who was the person that President Kennedy was speaking about?

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

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