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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?
(a) DuBois.
(b) Mueller.
(c) Ostrowski.
(d) Smythe.

2. How tall was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) Five feet eight inches.
(b) Six feet four inches.
(c) Six feet three inches.
(d) Five feet eleven inches.

3. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?
(a) Claudette Colvin.
(b) Deborah Miller.
(c) Trunda Blase.
(d) Margie Mathers.

4. In what year did Malcolm convert to Islam?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1954.

5. What was the "secret church of slaves" named?
(a) "The NAACP."
(b) "Invisible instutition."
(c) "The Nation."
(d) "The Sacred."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Malcolm X claim killed his father?

2. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

3. How many children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?

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

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cone show Martin Luther King, Sr.'s mindset on what a boy and a man were?

2. What happened to Malcolm's parents during his youth?

3. According to Cone, what did the black middle class believe in?

4. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

5. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

6. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

7. Why was Malcolm portrayed as a "messiah of hate"?

8. To whom was Malcolm a speaker to the truth regarding black and white relations in America?

9. Why did Malcolm have a problem with King's use of Christian values to help the black freedom movement progress forward?

10. What were the five objectives that King stated led to the redemption of blacks?

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