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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. According to Cone, who should blacks whom are proud of their African heritage thank? (Chapter 11)
2. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 11: "The price of freedom is death"?
3. According to Malcolm, whose job was "passing on black cultural traditions to the children"?
4. According to Cone, what limitation did King and Malcolm share in regard to being a problem with racism?
5. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is be an intelligent human being"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Malcolm find that Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam was a more suitable faith then Christianity for him?
2. Unlike Malcolm, why did King believe in whites?
3. According to Malcolm, what are the similarities between "integration" and "separation"?
4. How did King respond to watching Malcolm on television?
5. What was the official reason that was issued regarding Malcolm's removal from the Nation of Islam?
6. According to Malcolm, what problem did "color" have on the self-hate that most blacks held?
7. According to Cone, why was Malcolm's faith harder to understand and communicate to the majority of Americans?
8. What two books began black youth's movement away from nonviolent actions as the "weapon" for social change?
9. What did the imagery of the "bullet" and the "ballot" represent for Malcolm?
10. What was Malcolm's "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech an initial attempt for him to do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Based on the information in the book, who do you think had the greatest impact on the civil rights or black freedom movement? Why?
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