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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. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?

2. What did Malcolm consider socialism to be an alternative for?

3. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?

4. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?

5. According to Cone in Chapter 8, what separated King from Malcolm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Malcolm did not finish the ninth grade, he valued education. Why did Malcolm value education?

2. What was the difference between Northern and Southern blacks?

3. According to Malcolm, what are the similarities between "integration" and "separation"?

4. What was Malcolm's "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech an initial attempt for him to do?

5. What two books began black youth's movement away from nonviolent actions as the "weapon" for social change?

6. What did Cone decide was the greatest limitation for both King and Malcolm?

7. What was the "doctrine of doom of white America" based upon?

8. What was the official reason that was issued regarding Malcolm's removal from the Nation of Islam?

9. What did the imagery of the "bullet" and the "ballot" represent for Malcolm?

10. Why did black men fail to question "The Moynihan Report" even though it offended them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The title of Chapter 6 is "White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell." How did the author's belief and the history that he provided readers with regarding Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. support this ideology?

Essay Topic 2

In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mind, and the minds of many others, how did the Declaration of Independence speak to the Constitutional freedoms that blacks should be able to possess?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the different influences that religion had on both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. How did religion affect both men? What influence did their religious background have on their lives and their movements?

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