Q 01/05

With no writing paper in his cell, on what did King begin drafting the Letter from Birmingham Jail?

A) Envelope backs

B) Newspaper margins

C) Bible flyleaves

D) Cigarette pack liners

Answer · why

B) Newspaper margins

Newspaper margins were the only paper King had, so he started writing around the edges of the very page that printed the clergymen's criticism. He wen...

Q 02/05

King's Birmingham arrest, which led to his jail letter, fell on which day of the Christian calendar?

A) Palm Sunday

B) Ash Wednesday

C) Good Friday

D) Easter Monday

Answer · why

C) Good Friday

Good Friday found crowds of Black residents, dressed for the holy day, lining the streets as King was led away to jail.

Q 03/05

Which group does the Letter from Birmingham Jail fault for preferring order to justice?

A) White moderates

B) Northern liberals

C) Black nationalists

D) Union leaders

Answer · why

A) White moderates

White moderates, King wrote, were as great an obstacle as open segregationists, because their calls for patience and calm let injustice stand. The eig...

Q 04/05

In his Birmingham jail letter, King tells of his young daughter being barred from which place?

A) A department store

B) A swimming pool

C) An amusement park

D) A public library

Answer · why

C) An amusement park

An amusement park advertised on television had caught his six-year-old's eye, and King describes her tears when he explained it was closed to Black fa...

Q 05/05

To show that legal is not always just, the Letter from Birmingham Jail cites which regime's laws?

A) Fascist Italy

B) Imperial Japan

C) Franco's Spain

D) Nazi Germany

Answer · why

D) Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany made persecution lawful and sheltering its victims a crime, King observed, adding that he would have broken those laws to help Jews. Lega...