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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nonviolent "soldiers" burnished their greatest weapons which consisted of their heart, their conscience, their courage and what other thing?
(a) Their devotion to family.
(b) Their boldness.
(c) Their sense of justice.
(d) Their desire to be a whole nation.

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

3. Jesse Jackson feels that no child should do what without having read this book?
(a) Apply to college.
(b) Sing the National Anthem.
(c) Say the Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) Graduate from high school.

4. When six youngsters showed up to volunteer, where did Andy Young send them?
(a) To city hall.
(b) To the schools.
(c) To the lunch counters.
(d) To the library.

5. What did Birmingham give up when they decided to close down the parks instead of having them integrated?
(a) Their football team.
(b) Their baseball team.
(c) Their soccer team.
(d) Their golf team.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?

2. MLK states that the Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals. The womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable what?

3. What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote?

4. What kind of pace does MLK say they are taking to gain a cup of coffee at a lunch counter?

5. Who said, "Let down your buckets where you are"?

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