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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New Day in Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) Lunch counters.
(b) Public parks.
(c) City hall.
(d) Merchants.

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

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

4. When MLK was autographing copies of his book in the Harlem department store, what was he stabbed with?
(a) A razor blade.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A pointed stick.
(d) A pocket knife.

5. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?
(a) Continuous slumber.
(b) Winter slumber.
(c) Rip Van Winkle slumber.
(d) Restless slumber.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. During the time of slavery, Negroes were forbidden to associate with each other except in the case of what two things?

4. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?

5. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?

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