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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?
(a) Daddy Senior.
(b) Daddy King.
(c) Daddy Martin.
(d) Father King.

2. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?
(a) Royal Cola.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Tab.
(d) Pepsi.

3. How many children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

4. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Edward III.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Judas.

5. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1877.

6. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Ford.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Eisenhower.

7. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?
(a) Shakespeare's plays.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) The Koran.

8. Who was the author and civil rights activist that spoke of "twoness"?
(a) John O. Killens.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) James Meredith.
(d) Dorothy Height.

9. What faith shaped King's idea of God?
(a) The faith of "Christianity".
(b) The faith of "humanity".
(c) The faith of the "black experience".
(d) The faith of the "black man in America".

10. What German term did King use to refer to his belief that "the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness [we have] cosmic companionship"?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Nietzschism.
(d) Zeitgeist.

11. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?
(a) Bruce Klunder.
(b) Robert Zellner.
(c) Charlie Rose.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

12. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Gaius.
(d) John Stewert Mill.

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

14. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Malcolm X.

15. In what year did Martin Delany write "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of Colored People of the United States"?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?

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

3. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?

4. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?

5. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?

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