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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) John F Kennedy.
(d) Lawrence Reddick.

2. 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 "walking a little straighter these days?"
(c) Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"
(d) Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"

3. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?
(a) Reading from the Bible.
(b) Singing a song.
(c) Calling the men by name.
(d) Crying and begging the men to stop.

4. When MLK was autographing copies of his book in the Harlem department store, what was he stabbed with?
(a) A razor blade.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A pocket knife.
(d) A pointed stick.

5. Where are the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference located?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Savannah.
(c) New York City.
(d) Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

2. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?

3. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

4. What room number in the Gaston Motel did the planning committees meet in?

5. How many steps does MLK say that a nonviolent campaign has?

(see the answer key)

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