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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sword That Heals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," how many years have gone by when MLK states that humiliation cannot be expected to find "voice in a whisper"?
(a) Three hundred.
(b) Two hundred fifty.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) One hundred.

2. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Easily.
(b) Quietly.
(c) Mournfully.
(d) Remorsefully.

3. In 1963, who was the Vice President of the United States?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Hubert Humphrey.
(d) Gerald Ford.

4. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?
(a) Yelling for freedom from discrimination.
(b) Demanding jobs.
(c) Picketing businesses.
(d) Sitting in at lunch counters.

5. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?
(a) Words.
(b) Wanting.
(c) Allies.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Negro Revolution - Why 1963," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to wait how?

2. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?

3. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?

4. Who is the sightless singer that MLK mentions "held a commanding position in our ranks"?

5. To the Negro in 1963 nonviolence could symbolize the "gold badge of heroism" rather than what?

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