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

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?
(a) 95.
(b) 100.
(c) 110.
(d) 120.

3. Who was the prominent lawyer that had to leave the state after he delivered a speech after the Sunday school bombing?
(a) Roy Wilkins.
(b) James Farmer.
(c) Charles Morgan.
(d) John Lewis.

4. What does MLK state the moderates were doing for the Negro instead of asking him to stay in his "old ghetto"?
(a) They were ready to have them move into society with them.
(b) They were ready to send them to another country.
(c) They were ready to build a new ghetto for him.
(d) They were ready to hold their hands and help them find a new life.

5. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Whitney Young, Jr.
(c) Roger Blough.
(d) Roy Wilkins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Letter from Birmingham Jail, what word does MLK confess he is not afraid of?

3. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

4. Who said, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God"?

5. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?

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