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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through White Woman, Black Man, The Primeval Mitosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Cleaver give for being in love with his lawyer?
(a) She is patient with him
(b) She is a mother figure
(c) She listens to him
(d) They share the same opinions

2. What does Cleaver say he has always been aware of?
(a) The color of his skin
(b) Politics
(c) His dark side
(d) His attraction to women

3. Which Norman Mailer book does Cleaver mention in this chapter?
(a) The Sound and the Fury
(b) The White Negro
(c) Last Man Standing
(d) The Fight

4. Whose teachings does Cleaver say he carefully studied before supporting him?
(a) Beverly Axelrod
(b) Malcolm X
(c) Martin Luther King
(d) Elijah Muhammed

5. What does Cleaver say peasants used to be like?
(a) Warm and open
(b) Physically strong
(c) Closed
(d) Mentally strong

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Axelrod say Cleaver's flirtation may be based on?

2. What does Cleaver say the new left and the new right are the result of?

3. What was Cleaver doing when Malcolm X was killed?

4. Who does Cleaver say had a leer and a hint of a smile after Malcolm X's death?

5. In what city did Cleaver meet a woman in the Eyes vignette?

(see the answer key)

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