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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?
(a) Because someone asked him to come.
(b) Because his wife wanted him to go.
(c) Because there is injustice in Birmingham.
(d) Because he could get a lot of exposure if he came to Birmingham.

4. Jesse Jackson states that if he were to write a "Freedom Symphony" the first movement would be what?
(a) Columbus coming to the new world.
(b) The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The end of slavery.

5. What does Jesse Jackson say is the third movement of his "Freedom Symphony"?
(a) Martin Luther King's speech.
(b) The right to vote.
(c) Integration.
(d) Rosa Parks on the bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?

2. In Jesse Jackson's afterward to the book he talks about seeing an African-American boy where?

3. When the city government obtained a court injunction to cease the activities of the "Negro army," what did MLK's group do?

4. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?

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

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