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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: I See a Nightmare (1952-63).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?
(a) "Messiah of blackness."
(b) "Messiah of hate."
(c) "Messiah of indifference."
(d) "Messiah of power."

2. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Elijah Muhammad.
(c) Louis Farrakhan.
(d) Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.

3. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?
(a) Black.
(b) American.
(c) African.
(d) A man.

4. How tall was Malcolm X?
(a) Five feet ten inches.
(b) Five feet four inches.
(c) Six feet three inches.
(d) Six feet nine inches.

5. What did Peter Bailey call Malcolm X?
(a) "Teacher X."
(b) "Father X."
(c) "Master Teacher."
(d) "Prophet X."

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?

2. What did Malcolm X claim that the "black masses living at the bottom of the social heap" were living?

3. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

4. What was the name of Malcolm X's wife?

5. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?

(see the answer key)

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