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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31: The Poor People's Campaign, Chapter 32: Unfulfilled Dreams.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King believed that the poor in Los Angeles saw the riots as their only means of doing what?
(a) Achieving retribution.
(b) Getting noticed.
(c) Punishing authorities.
(d) Gaining equitable goods.

2. King stipulated there was something in the universe that justified Cullen Bryant when he said what?
(a) "Society hinges on truth, without which it suffers greatly."
(b) "Truth will forever be on the scaffold."
(c) "Truth crushed to earth, will rise again."
(d) "Truth remains firm, not flexible to wishes."

3. What did King describe as the age-old problem faced by his mother and all black parents in America?
(a) Explaining segregation to a teenager.
(b) Explaining racial hatred to a small child.
(c) Explaining segregation, discrimination to a small child.
(d) Explaining racial discrimination to a small child.

4. After a tentative agreement was reached on 11 May 1963, segregationists bombed what locations?
(a) The church of King's brother and Abernathy's home.
(b) The homes of King's brother and Abernathy.
(c) The Kings' motel and his brother's church.
(d) The Kings' motel and his brother's home.

5. King believed preaching should come from the people's experiences, and specified that he must know what about those he pastored?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Their status.
(c) Their problems.
(d) Their fortuity.

Short Answer Questions

1. King indicated that what the world needed was a group of women and men willing to do what?

2. Widespread racial violence between 11-15 August 1965 in Los Angeles, California, resulted in how many deaths?

3. King stipulated he "deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems" for how long?

4. King noted he had come to recognize the true meaning of what phrase through Coretta?

5. On what day was Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by Klan members as she drove marchers back from a 4-day march from Selma to Montgomery?

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