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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. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?
(a) 350.
(b) 150.
(c) 250.
(d) 200.

2. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) The pocket knife.
(c) The electric cattle prod.
(d) The shot gun.

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and Connor.
(b) Connor and King.
(c) Walker and King.
(d) Boutwell and King.

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

5. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?
(a) The lunch counter and water fountain.
(b) The water fountain and tables.
(c) The water fountain and lavatory.
(d) Tables and lavatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?

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

3. Who was the insurance broker that joined other Negro leaders that met with the white Senior Citizens Committee in Bull Connor's Birmingham?

4. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

5. What does the "C" stand for in the term, "Project C"?

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