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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 church was King's father a minister of?
(a) South Central Baptist Church.
(b) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(c) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(d) First Baptist Church.

2. What three themes shaped King's faith and theology?
(a) Hope, justice, and love.
(b) Justice, fear, and power.
(c) Love, balance, and pride.
(d) Pride, Chrisitanity, and hope.

3. What did Malcolm X claim that the "black masses living at the bottom of the social heap" were living?
(a) An everlasting imprisonment.
(b) A social lynching.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A dream.

4. 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 religious Uncle Tom."
(c) "A misnomer."
(d) "A hater of the black movement."

5. What religious affiliation was Malcolm X aligned with?
(a) Christian Imperialist.
(b) Marxist Fascist.
(c) Buddhist Nationalist.
(d) Muslim Nationalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade did Malcolm X's education end?

2. What did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?

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

4. Complete the following statement made by King: "Men often __________ each other because they _________ each other".

5. What was the "secret church of slaves" named?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor did King use to show the importance of "wholehearted work"?

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

3. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

4. Why did Malcolm state, "While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negros are having a nightmare"?

5. What was the difference in the way that whites and blacks were addressed during Martin's youth?

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

7. What were the problems associated with Du Bois' theory of "twoness"?

8. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

9. How are the two distinct religious traditions in African-American communities linked?

10. What three factors formed the context for King's idea of the "American Dream"?

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