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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Malcolm X born?

2. On what date did King make his first major speech to the nation?

3. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

4. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

5. What religious affiliation was Malcolm X aligned with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

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

4. Discuss Malcolm's youth.

5. Why did King realize the problem with black's self-respect?

6. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

7. What meaning did the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. have on the black freedom movement?

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

9. Why did Malcolm begin to become more political and less religious regarding his public speeches?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readers are shown the very different ways that King and Malcolm X were brought up. King was surrounded by core Christian values, while Malcolm X was the product of turmoil. How do you think their different upbringings helped to form them as leaders, and therefore the movements, given they were both fighting for the same thing?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss King's five objectives. What are they? Why did King see them as important? What were they meant to do for those involved in the civil rights movement?

Essay Topic 3

Malcolm had his own five objectives: unity, self-knowledge, self-love, self-defense, and separation. Discuss Malcolm's objectives. Why did Malcolm see them as important? Why did Malcolm see these objectives as the path to black freedom?

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