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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?
(a) Effective.
(b) Well timed.
(c) Easy to endure.
(d) Not needed.

2. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Picketing businesses.
(b) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.
(c) Demanding jobs.
(d) Sitting in at lunch counters.

3. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) An occurance.
(b) Followed.
(c) A real law.
(d) A fact.

4. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?
(a) King and Walker.
(b) King and Conner.
(c) Boutwell and Conner.
(d) Boutwell and King.

5. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?
(a) Embrace the newly elected Mayor.
(b) Acknowledge the people that voted for them.
(c) Move out of their City Hall offices.
(d) Congratulate the winner.

Short Answer Questions

1. When MLK appeared on the show, "Meet the Press," who appeared on the show with him?

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

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?

4. 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?

5. MLK and his groups decided to limit the first few days' efforts of the campaign to what?

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