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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. MLK states that the "summer of our discontent" brought white citizens closer into harmony with their Negro citizens instead of what?
(a) Driving them further apart from their fellow Negro citizens.
(b) Pushing them together in a rage.
(c) Alienating America's white citizens.
(d) Confusing the white citizens about what the Negro citizens want.

2. 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?
(a) Greensboro, North Carolina.
(b) Savannah, Georgia.
(c) Columbia, South Carolina.
(d) Nashville, Tennessee.

3. MLK states that white people don't understand that it is no more possible to be half free than what?
(a) Half alive.
(b) Exuberant because of loss.
(c) Happy with nothing.
(d) Half dead.

4. Where were the after school meetings to be held that students were invited to attend?
(a) At the Gaston motel.
(b) At lunch counters.
(c) At churches.
(d) In parks.

5. MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?"
(a) The United States.
(b) The state of Alabama.
(c) Any of the southern states.
(d) The earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

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

3. In his letter, MLK states that he has heard the word "Wait!" for years and that this word "Wait!" has always meant what?

4. When the Supreme Court modified its decision on school desegregation, what did it permit to corrupt its intent?

5. By the end of April, the attitude of the national press had changed, and the coverage the campaign received was what?

(see the answer key)

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