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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.
(b) Signs with only white people on them.
(c) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(d) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.

2. MLK speaks about living in a society where the supreme law is rendered inoperative in vast areas of the nation. What is this supreme law that MLK speaks about?
(a) The National Anthem.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Wagner Act.
(d) The Constitution.

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

4. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Togetherness.
(d) Integration.

5. In Jesse Jackson's afterward to the book he talks about seeing an African-American boy where?
(a) In Dallas.
(b) In San Francisco.
(c) In Chicago.
(d) In New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?

2. Who said, "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."?

3. After the first three days of the lunch counter sit-ins, how many arrests had there been?

4. In the days of slavery what does MLK say kept the Negro captive?

5. In Jesse Jackson's afterward to the book he talks about seeing an African-American girl in a small town in the South. What does the girl want to be when she grows up?

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