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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," MLK states that the nation had come to count on the Negro to endure how?
(a) Mournfully.
(b) Quietly.
(c) Easily.
(d) Remorsefully.

2. The Vice President of the United States is quoted saying," Emancipation was a Proclamation but" is not what?
(a) Followed.
(b) A real law.
(c) An occurance.
(d) A fact.

3. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why people are different.
(b) Why they don't like them.
(c) To be carried on their shoulders.
(d) To be locked up.

4. 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) Two hundred fifty.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Two hundred.

5. MLK states that "Undeniably, the Negro had been an object of sympathy and wore" what type of scars?
(a) Scars of deep grievances.
(b) Scars of terrible skeletons in the closet.
(c) Scars of a remorseful upbringing.
(d) Scars of a failed past.

Short Answer Questions

1. In MLK's description of the "armies" that were marching in Birmingham, who does he say that doctors marched with?

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

3. What does MLK say the extremists were saying while the conservatives were saying, "let us not move so fast"?

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

5. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's daughter aids him in dispersing a mob by doing what?

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