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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 talk about in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963" that celebrates it's 100th birthday in 1963?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) National Currency Act.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) The Homestead Act.

2. What does MLK state is the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Unity.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Action.

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.
(b) The ignorance of the white leaders.
(c) The complacency of the courts.
(d) The slow pace of school desegregation.

4. After the President of the United States told the nation he would not allow extremists to sabotage a fair and just pact, how many federal troops did he order into Birmingham?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Two thousand five hundred.
(d) Three thousand five hundred.

5. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?
(a) Eighty-five.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Seventy-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?

2. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?

3. When several hundred Birmingham Negros decided to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail where did they meet?

4. 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?

5. When the crusade started marching from Zion Hill church, how far were they permitted to march?

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