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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. What names did King omit from his jailhouse diary regarding his arrest in Albany?
2. What title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?
3. What did both Malcolm and his father share enthusiasm for according to "Home to Allah, Home to Blackness"?
4. What did Henry X, the Black Muslim minister, say that Malcolm had abandoned to become a "political sociologist"?
5. To what did Malcolm compare America's downfall in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Cone, why was Malcolm's faith harder to understand and communicate to the majority of Americans?
2. What was the official reason that was issued regarding Malcolm's removal from the Nation of Islam?
3. Why did Malcolm find it necessary to address Third World nations regarding civil inequalities?
4. Why did Malcolm find that Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam was a more suitable faith then Christianity for him?
5. What did Cone state the difference between King and Malcolm was regarding their impact on recognizing them today?
6. According to Malcolm, what are the similarities between "integration" and "separation"?
7. How do Americans remember Martin Luther King, Jr. today?
8. What limited both Malcolm and King from recognizing the connection between racism and sexism?
9. According to Cone, how did King proclaim and live the American dream?
10. What did the imagery of the "bullet" and the "ballot" represent for Malcolm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Cone stated that both King and Malcolm failed to acknowledge sexism and classism as part of their race toward freedom. How, and why, did both King and Malcolm ignore the importance of addressing both classism and sexism within the civil rights movement?
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
Discuss the different representations of both Malcolm and King by the media. How did the media describe both men? How did these representations separate the men in the eyes of Americans?
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