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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. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?
(a) They were ready to hold their hands and help them find a new life.
(b) They were ready to build a new ghetto for him.
(c) They were ready to have them move into society with them.
(d) They were ready to send them to another country.

2. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?
(a) A horse-and-buggy pace.
(b) A maple syrup pace.
(c) A snail's pace.
(d) A turtle's pace.

3. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?
(a) Miles Anderson.
(b) Fred Shuttlesworth
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) George Wallace.

4. MLK talks of people wondering "what the Negro will expect as he gains rights" and he likens the Negro people demanding more to what person?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Orphan Annie.
(c) Mowgli.
(d) Andrew Tithsman.

5. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Arthur Shores.
(c) Orzell Billingsley.
(d) Wyatt Walker.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?

2. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?

3. One of Thomas Jefferson's servants worked for some forty years to earn ten thousand dollars. How many people was she able to obtain liberation for?

4. Which of Jesus's apostles does MLK liken himself to in his letter to the clergymen?

5. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?

(see the answer key)

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