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

2. 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?
(a) More than four hundred and fifty million.
(b) More than five hundred million.
(c) More than three hundred and fifty million
(d) More than four hundred million.

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

4. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?
(a) Because they wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.
(b) Because they would not get to see their family.
(c) Because they would lose their job.
(d) Because they would be sold to another owner.

5. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK quotes a poet. Where does the poet say the blackness of nighttime collects?
(a) In our mouth.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In our hearts.
(d) On our love.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?

2. 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"?

3. According to MLK, what is the best way to defeat an army?

4. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK states that the Negro turned his back on force because he knew he couldn't win through physical force, and he also believed he could lose what?

5. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?

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