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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. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) At churches.
(b) At the Gaston motel.
(c) In parks.
(d) At lunch counters.

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

3. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?
(a) Or are Negroes "really sure they are our equals?"
(b) Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"
(c) Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"
(d) Or are Negroes "walking a little straighter these days?"

4. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why people are different.
(b) To be carried on their shoulders.
(c) To be locked up.
(d) Why they don't like them.

5. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?
(a) In our hearts.
(b) On our love.
(c) In our mouth.
(d) On the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. There was a visiting statesman that waved his hand and stated that he was "aware of current events. I know everything you are telling me about what the white man is doing to the Negro." Where was this statesman from?

4. What was one of the most important parts of the mass meetings according to MLK?

5. Who did Clarence Jones tell MLK had raised fifty thousand dollars for bail bonds?

(see the answer key)

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