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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What names did King omit from his jailhouse diary regarding his arrest in Albany?
(a) The names Dr. Anderson and Ralph Abernathy.
(b) The names of the women arrested.
(c) The names of Rosa Parks and Malcom X.
(d) The names of Slater King and Rev. Ben Gay.
2. Which U.S. President refused to put voting rights up to Congress after King asked him to?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.
3. According to Cone, who should blacks whom are proud of their African heritage thank? (Chapter 11)
(a) Anthony Davis.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
(d) Malcolm X.
4. What did Cone claim was created for "the specific needs of blacks" in Chapter 6?
(a) The Nation of Islam.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The Southern Baptist faith.
(d) The CORE.
5. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) "The tortoise beating the hare."
(b) "Chickens coming home to roost."
(c) "The rage of blacks entering Stage One."
(d) "The wrath of God showing his face."
6. According to Cone, to whom was Malcolm's most important audience during his last year?
(a) Black men of America.
(b) Black Americans.
(c) Third world nations.
(d) African Americans.
7. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe was the "last major barrier to black freedom"?
(a) Denial of suffrage.
(b) Acceptance by the whole of America.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Multiculturalism.
8. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?
(a) Pico-Union.
(b) Watts.
(c) Pacoima.
(d) Compton.
9. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 11: "The price of freedom is death"?
(a) King George III.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. What did Cone say were the "outward signs of an inward transformation"? (Chapter 11)
(a) Gospel and religious practice.
(b) Afros and dashikis.
(c) Braiding and naturalism.
(d) Traditional robings.
11. Who did Malcolm believe was responsible for the conspiracy to oust him from the Black Muslim movement?
(a) The American government.
(b) Wallace-Elijah's son.
(c) Chicago officials of the Black Muslim movement.
(d) Muhammad.
12. What did Henry X, the Black Muslim minister, say that Malcolm had abandoned to become a "political sociologist"?
(a) Faith.
(b) The movement.
(c) Religion.
(d) Honor.
13. According to King, "Nobody could ride your back unless" it is what?
(a) Broken.
(b) Bent.
(c) Tired.
(d) Harnessed.
14. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.
15. Who made the following statement: "Yes, I am personally the victim of deferred dreams, of blasted hopes"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who made the following statement: "If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place"?
2. What was the nickname for the infamous March 7th attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
3. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?
4. Who was the founder of the Nation of Islam?
5. How many years did Malcolm X spend with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam?
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