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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 1963, MLK states that the Negro dared to do what for the first time?
(a) Look back at a white man, eye to eye.
(b) Stand up for injustice.
(c) Take their children on a march.
(d) Talk back to a white man.

2. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?
(a) Custodians.
(b) Window cleaners.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Nurses.

3. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1982.
(c) 2054.
(d) 1995.

4. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?
(a) Abusing a Negro.
(b) Not going to work.
(c) Jailing an innocent man or woman.
(d) Sleeping on the job.

5. 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) Remorsefully.
(d) Mournfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had faced the guns of the British Empire in India with nonviolence how many people did they free from colonialism?

2. In "The Sword That Heals," what does MLK mention was no longer a disgrace, but a badge of honor?

3. In the beginning of the book, MLK states that the chill and frost were replaced by what type of spring?

4. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?

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

(see the answer key)

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