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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the news Judge Merritt brings to Malcolm at the Swerlin house?
(a) that he will not have to go to the reform school.
(b) that he will have two more years of probation.
(c) that his mother attempted suicide.
(d) that he will still have to serve out his sentence.

2. As a youth, what are Malcolm and Laura doing that gets the crowd roaring?
(a) dancing.
(b) marching.
(c) singing.
(d) debating.

3. What do the Klan members accuse Earl of doing?
(a) forming a Black Liberation Army.
(b) preaching insurrection against the president.
(c) stirring up the bad niggers in town.
(d) trying to make a name for himself.

4. Who does Laura say wears the sky like an overcoat?
(a) God.
(b) a sea gull.
(c) a pilot.
(d) Malcolm.

5. What is Louise's feeling about being light skinned?
(a) she feels superior to Earl.
(b) she feels superior to other blacks.
(c) she wishes she had married a white man.
(d) she wishes she were blacker than Earl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Malcolm think they might make him class president at school?

2. What does Malcolm admit to Laura that made him proud when he was a little boy?

3. What does the white Welfare Worker want to do?

4. Who does Malcolm come across in Small's Paradise Bar?

5. What thoughtless remark does Judge Merritt make about black people?

(see the answer key)

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