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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1963, more than how many African nations had risen from colonial bondage?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Thirty-four.

2. What does MLK claim is the "sword that heals"?
(a) Equality.
(b) Civil Rights.
(c) Integration.
(d) Nonviolence.

3. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their golf team.
(b) Their baseball team.
(c) Their football team.
(d) Their soccer team.

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

5. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?

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

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

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

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