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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Malcolm think they might make him class president at school?
(a) most of the students think he is white.
(b) no one else is running against him.
(c) he has a gang who will threaten those who don't vote for him.
(d) he has the best grades and he is popular.

3. What happens to Malcolm after his mother is taken away?
(a) he goes to live with his grandmother.
(b) he runs away.
(c) he goes into foster care.
(d) he goes to the reformatory.

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

5. What prophetic dream does Malcolm tell Laura he used to have?
(a) flying in the sky like a bird.
(b) speaking in front of a large crowd of people.
(c) doing something to help his parents not work so hard.
(d) marrying a girl just like her.

6. Why does Malcolm say he does not write to his mother in the asylum?
(a) he is trying to make her forget him.
(b) he doesn't know what to say to her.
(c) he thinks his letters will only cause trouble.
(d) he doesn't think they let her have mail.

7. Where is Louise seen telling someone not to feed that boy no pig?
(a) in a breadline.
(b) in an asylum.
(c) in a mosque.
(d) in a cafeteria.

8. What happens to Earl Little?
(a) he is drowned in the ocean.
(b) he is run over by a trolley.
(c) he is hanged by the Klan.
(d) he has a massive heart attack.

9. Who is Sophia?
(a) Malcolm's fantasy girlfriend.
(b) Malcolm's white lover.
(c) Malcolm's grandmother.
(d) Malcolm's sister.

10. What does Malcolm say about Miss Stella who says she is with an old family?
(a) she washes their windows every Saturday.
(b) she cleans their toilets and cooks their food.
(c) she babysits their small children.
(d) she walks their dogs.

11. What does Shorty say the Harvard Law School is for?
(a) turning out lawyers to become judges.
(b) turning out lawyers to keep black people in jail.
(c) turning out lawyers to defend the Constitution.
(d) turning out lawyers to defend black people.

12. What does Malcolm have to say about his names?
(a) I have no name really.
(b) I have names given by God.
(c) My name is Legion.
(d) I have had so many names.

13. What does Malcolm say when Laura says he is nice?
(a) that he is not nice and Laura's grandmother is right about him.
(b) that she may not agree when she knows him better.
(c) that he is only nice to people who are nice to him.
(d) that he was raised by his mother to be a nice boy.

14. What thoughtless remark does Judge Merritt make about black people?
(a) that they are mostly criminals.
(b) that they only know how to have babies.
(c) that he wonders if they are people.
(d) that they live in shacks and drive clunker cars.

15. what are some of the menial jobs Malcolm has?
(a) picking cotton and baling hay.
(b) shining shoes and carrying luggage.
(c) delivering papers and cleaning stables.
(d) chopping wood and washing dishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Louise respond when she is called a half-white bitch by Klan members?

2. How does Malcolm get away with entering a bar in the Negro Section of Lansing?

3. What is Louise's feeling about being light skinned?

4. Why does Earl have to walk home that night?

5. What is the name given to Malcolm during a fist fight in prison?

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