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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During his June 1954 address in Harlem, what did Malcolm claim that the "white man" has brainwashed "us black people" to look upon?
(a) "An idol that the black community could not identify with."
(b) "A blondhaired, blue-eyed Jesus."
(c) "A white Jesus."
(d) "A racist Jesus."

2. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Lincoln's.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s.
(c) Kennedy's.
(d) Patrice Lumumba's.

3. What television production portrayed the Black Muslims as a black nationalist hate group in 1959?
(a) "Stormfront."
(b) "The Hate That Hate Produced."
(c) "A Twisted Definition of Hate."
(d) "The Weather Underground Documentary."

4. What did Cone say were the "outward signs of an inward transformation"? (Chapter 11)
(a) Afros and dashikis.
(b) Gospel and religious practice.
(c) Braiding and naturalism.
(d) Traditional robings.

5. Who did Malcolm believe was responsible for the conspiracy to oust him from the Black Muslim movement?
(a) Chicago officials of the Black Muslim movement.
(b) The American government.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Wallace-Elijah's son.

6. Who made the following statement: "But the danger is that white people use King"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Wallace-Elijah's son.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Louis Farikan.

7. What march did King believe was the "final lap of a freedom march that had started in Montgomery ten years earlier"?
(a) The Charleston march.
(b) The Alabama march.
(c) The Washington, D.C. march.
(d) The Selma march.

8. What report claimed that the "black man was victimized more than black women" and the black man had to "step forward" while the black woman had to "step backward"?
(a) Moynihan.
(b) Mathers.
(c) Suanters.
(d) De'Leka.

9. In what city did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "Beyond Vietnam" speech?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

10. To what did Malcolm compare America's downfall in Chapter 6?
(a) The end of slavery.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Lincoln's death.
(d) Atlantis.

11. To whom did Malcolm gravitate towards after being ostracized from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Martin Delany.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Robert F. Williams.
(d) Bobby Seale.

12. When did Malcolm announce his break with the Nation of Islam?
(a) April 26, 1969.
(b) July 4, 1967.
(c) June 17, 1971.
(d) March 8, 1964.

13. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1968.

14. What two people's ideas did King infuse in regard to nonviolence and spirituality? (Chapter 9)
(a) Martin Luther King, Sr. and Mills.
(b) Orville and Gandhi.
(c) DuBois and Jesus.
(d) Gandhi and Thoreau.

15. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 11: "The price of freedom is death"?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) King George III.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leaders did King find more interest in regarding their influence on the change of world politics? (Chapter 9)

2. According to Cone, who should blacks whom are proud of their African heritage thank? (Chapter 11)

3. What did Malcolm claim people needed in order to "go[ing] anywhere in this world"?

4. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?

5. Who influenced Malcolm's receptiveness to socialism?

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