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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. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?
(a) That "an unjust law is still a law."
(b) That "an unjust law is no law at all."
(c) That "an unjust law should be followed by law even if we don't like it."
(d) That "an unjust law should only follow by those who make it."

2. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.
(b) Signs with only white people on them.
(c) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(d) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.

3. President Kennedy once said something to MLK in the White House about not being too harsh on the judgment of someone. Who was the person that President Kennedy was speaking about?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

4. What does MLK describe as the ultimate tragedy of Birmingham?
(a) The silence of the good people.
(b) The brutality of the bad people.
(c) The sinfulness of the bad people.
(d) The fear of the good people.

5. What does MLK consider one significant element of the March on Washington?
(a) That it was a congregation of non-violent people.
(b) That it was done in the nation's capital.
(c) That it joined together any race that had felt sorrow at one point or another.
(d) That the white churches participated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?

3. MLK states that he has yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was what?

4. Who is the dean of Negro leaders and responsible for proposing the March on Washington?

5. MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter?

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