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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man say the relationship with his girlfriend became like after the knife incident?
(a) Loving
(b) Docile
(c) Unmanageable
(d) Frightening

2. What is the title of this chapter?
(a) A Loving Spoonful
(b) Blood of the Beast, Rallying Round the Flag
(c) Fight the Power
(d) As God is My Witness

3. What does Cleaver think black men are brought up not to show?
(a) Feelings
(b) Weakness
(c) Wealth
(d) Feet

4. What does Cleaver say he embraced?
(a) Hate
(b) Sex
(c) Love
(d) Violence

5. How did the man's arguments with his girlfriend end?
(a) Sex
(b) Shaking hands
(c) Apologies
(d) Violence

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver refer to his inmates as?

2. What does Cleaver call the leader of a society?

3. What does Cleaver say some people think the world will eventually become?

4. What does Cleaver say is happening in Vietnam that is encouraging people to be more approving of blacks?

5. What does Cleaver tell Axelrod he thinks he deserves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think that white women seek out men socially beneath them?

2. What does Cleaver think Americans think of themselves collectively?

3. What is the correlation between the Negro revolution and the war in Vietnam?

4. How have Axelrod and Cleaver's time in prison changed his attitude to women?

5. What events does Cleaver attribute to bridging the racial gap?

6. What happened to the elderly man's childhood friend?

7. Why does Cleaver think that the world needs police and the military?

8. What does Axelrod say in her reply to Cleaver's first letter?

9. Why does Cleaver think things like the twist have become so influential?

10. Why does Cleaver think black men need to see themselves as strong?

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