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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Days to Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) The city jail.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Arthur Shores.

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

3. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?
(a) A snail's pace.
(b) A maple syrup pace.
(c) A horse-and-buggy pace.
(d) A turtle's pace.

4. What does MLK state that the American Negroes said after they "shook off three hundred years of psychological slavery"?
(a) "We shall overcome."
(b) "We can make ourselves free."
(c) "We are human beings too and deserve the chance for change."
(d) "We are in the right position to win."

5. What kind of acceptance does MLK say is more bewildering than outright rejection?
(a) Undecided.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Lukewarm.
(d) Various.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals?

2. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?

4. After the President of the United States told the nation he would not allow extremists to sabotage a fair and just pact, how many federal troops did he order into Birmingham?

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

(see the answer key)

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