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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Days to Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Archelaus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

3. The results of the March 5th election showed that no candidate had a clear victory. The city had to hold a run-off vote when?
(a) The second week in April.
(b) The third week in March.
(c) The first week in April.
(d) The fourth week in March.

4. When MLK's wife was refused the opportunity to speak to her husband after he was placed in jail, who did she call?
(a) Bull Connor.
(b) The city jail.
(c) Arthur Shores.
(d) The President of the United States.

5. MLK states that their "army" would sing but not do what?
(a) Murmer.
(b) Strike.
(c) Sit.
(d) Slay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK state in his letter is the basic reason that he is in Birmingham?

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

3. Who is the person in Bull Connor's Birmingham that had been jailed several times and had had his home and church damaged by bombs?

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

5. MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what?

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