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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?
(a) To divide it.
(b) To strategically place your powers in front of their faces.
(c) To wipe them out with nonviolence.
(d) To persuade them to your side.

2. When several hundred Birmingham Negros decided to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail where did they meet?
(a) New Zion Church.
(b) New Pilgrim Baptist Church.
(c) Birmingham City Hall.
(d) The Birmingham train station.

3. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?
(a) That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.
(b) Why white people beat the Negro people.
(c) That she can't go to a public park.
(d) That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.

4. Jesse Jackson states that MLK knew where the key to unlocking American apartheid was. It was not where?
(a) The Mayor's office.
(b) The local city hall offices.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Governer's office.

5. MLK proposes in "The Days To Come" that just like the GI Bill of Rights was awarded to war veterans, then what should be awarded to "our veterans of the long siege of denial"?
(a) A Bill of Rights for the Negro.
(b) A Bill of Rights for the Destitute.
(c) A Bill of Rights for the Underprivileged.
(d) A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?

2. MLK talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?

3. In "The Summer of Our Discontent," MLK states that our nation was born how?

4. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?

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

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