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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Wyatt Walker confer with lawyers about?
(a) The city code on lunch counters.
(b) The city code on jail sentances.
(c) The city code on segregation.
(d) The city code on picketing.

2. 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.

3. Who were the actual competing candidates for the run-off vote?
(a) Boutwell and King.
(b) Connor and King.
(c) Walker and King.
(d) Boutwell and Connor.

4. When the city of Birmingham lost a case and had to open public-recreation to all its citizens, what did the authorities do?
(a) Rioted in the streets.
(b) Closed down the parks.
(c) Still left signs up that said, "no colored allowed."
(d) Appealed to the courts.

5. When the city government obtained a court injunction to cease the activities of the "Negro army," what did MLK's group do?
(a) They all sat on the courthouse steps.
(b) They appeared in court with all the volunteers following behind.
(c) They disobeyed the court order.
(d) They sent a letter to city officials concerning their cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MLK quote St. Augustine as saying about an unjust law?

2. When Negros went to work they would eat in separate places and use what things labeled "colored"?

3. When the police ran out of paddy wagons to bring people in to the jail, what other two vehicles did they end up using to transport people?

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

5. What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions?

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