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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. In what year was school segregation declared unconstitutional?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

2. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?
(a) Galations.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Peter.
(d) Matthew.

3. 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?
(a) Integrationism and nationalism.
(b) Hope and vitality.
(c) The American Dream and The American Nightmare.
(d) Promise and freedom.

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

5. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A traitor."
(b) "A misnomer."
(c) "A hater of the black movement."
(d) "A religious Uncle Tom."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Martin Delany write "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of Colored People of the United States"?

2. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?

3. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?

4. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?

5. What did Malcolm claim was "seventh heaven" in Chapter 2?

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