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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When MLK and the other leaders returned to Birmingham after the run-off election, they tried to contact all their volunteers for a meeting. How many volunteers came out?
(a) About forty-five.
(b) About seventy.
(c) About fifty.
(d) About sixty-five.

2. What is the name of Jesse Jackson's first child?
(a) Santita.
(b) Laura.
(c) Isabella.
(d) Megan.

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

4. MLK states that the segregationists introduced a new and barbarous weapon on the Negros. What was this weapon?
(a) The shot gun.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) The electric cattle prod.
(d) The pocket knife.

5. Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action?
(a) Because it was the time after the election.
(b) Because it was symbolic of Jesus rising on Easter morning.
(c) Because besides Christmas it is the main shopping period of the year.
(d) Because it helped the Negro community to remember their ties with God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the N.A.A.C.P. secretary that the segregationists showed their hatred by assassinating?

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

3. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

4. 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?

5. MLK talks about the positive growth of the movement, and supporters were increasing from white and Negro people. The number of S.C.L.C. affiliates jumped from 85 to what?

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