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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. MLK states that he and his group possessed the most formidable weapon of all. What was this weapon he spoke of?
(a) Non-violence.
(b) No more acceptance of brutality.
(c) Unity.
(d) The conviction that we were right.

2. MLK suggests that the Negro had been brainwashed to accept what white man's theory?
(a) That the white man would rule this land forever.
(b) That the Negros weren't educated enough to know what they wanted.
(c) That the Negro community did not know how to survive without the white man.
(d) That he, as a Negro, was inferior.

3. What law does MLK say the Supreme Court retreated from it's own position by approving?
(a) The Public School Law.
(b) The Negro Exclusion Law.
(c) The Pupil Placement Law.
(d) The Integration Deliverance Law.

4. What was one of the most important parts of the mass meetings according to MLK?
(a) The freedom songs.
(b) The education of the volunteers.
(c) The togetherness of the Negro community.
(d) The recognition of leaders.

5. What did governor George Wallace pledge to have forever in his inauguration vow?
(a) Integration.
(b) Togetherness.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many volunteers from the Negro community were willing to join the ranks and go to jail in Birmingham?

2. In "The Sword That Heals," MLK mentions that Negroes had to face the fact that in the South they have to move without what?

3. What is the name of Martin Luther King's wife?

4. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

5. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?

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