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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Summer of Our Discontent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?
(a) The sinfulness of the bad people.
(b) The brutality of the bad people.
(c) The fear of the good people.
(d) The silence of the good people.

2. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their football team.
(b) Their soccer team.
(c) Their baseball team.
(d) Their golf team.

3. When MLK writes a letter to his fellow clergymen, he tells them that he heard they have called his activities what?
(a) Selfish and Ugly.
(b) Unwise and untimely.
(c) Honorable and wise.
(d) Desirable and praiseworthy.

4. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Archelaus.
(d) Socrates.

5. 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) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(c) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.
(d) Signs with only white people on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

2. MLK states that a person would have come to a startling conclusion if they had visited Birmingham before what date?

3. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?

4. As one of the first victims of the poison gas pellet, a young Negro started to say, "Save me" to who?

5. How many affiliated organizations across the South does the Southern Christian Leadership Conference have?

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