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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Malcolm led away by the prison guards?
(a) for not working.
(b) for fighting.
(c) for playing the numbers.
(d) for cursing.

2. What does Luther tell Malcolm about the first people ever created?
(a) they were originally monkeys.
(b) they went to Africa to settle.
(c) they were black people.
(d) they were from a swamp.

3. What does Laura say she did for Daniel?
(a) cooked his meals.
(b) turned tricks.
(c) bought drugs for him.
(d) nursed him through sickness.

4. Who does Malcolm tell Sidney to call when he reports the mob on the street?
(a) all the ministers he can find.
(b) all the newspapers he can think of.
(c) all the black colleges.
(d) all the gang members he can find.

5. When does Lorraine say she became a member of the Movement?
(a) when Luther went to prison.
(b) when she was sixteen-years-old.
(c) right after Luther came home.
(d) soon after sydney was born.

6. What is the symbolism of the boy entering the large white hotel?
(a) it foreshadows the civil rights movement
(b) it represents servitude of the black man.
(c) it represent a change in attitudes.
(d) it symbolized progress.

7. What does Laura say ministers always are when they hear about real life?
(a) shocked.
(b) fatalistic.
(c) optimistic.
(d) unbelieving.

8. Who does Malcolm meet at the subway?
(a) Laura.
(b) Ada.
(c) Luther.
(d) Sidney.

9. What is Luther's complaint about the white press?
(a) they don't print anything at all about the black community.
(b) they don't print anything to give blacks pride in themselves.
(c) they don't print in words blacks can understand.
(d) they don't print news of whtie atrocities.

10. What does Luther tell Malcolm before he leaves the prison?
(a) write me a letter sometime.
(b) I'll get you a better lawyer.
(c) when you come out, come straight to me.
(d) keep your nose clean.

11. What is disturbing to the policemen at the station the night Hinton was beaten?
(a) the noise coming from outside.
(b) the newspaper reporters gathered there.
(c) the fire in Malcolm's eyes.
(d) the large, silent crowd outside the station.

12. Who is Laura's old man?
(a) a pimp.
(b) an escaped convict.
(c) her second husband.
(d) a lesbian lover.

13. What is the importance of meeting the Leader?
(a) he has a large church in Harlem.
(b) he has the plans for a revolution.
(c) he leads the Black Muslim community in America.
(d) he knows all the black civil rights leaders.

14. What is Hinton's condition in the jail?
(a) he is unconscious.
(b) he is raving mad.
(c) he is praying loudly.
(d) he is on a hunger strike.

15. To whom does Luther write about Malcolm?
(a) the governor.
(b) the preseident.
(c) the leader.
(d) Malcolm's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laura say she will never go to Malcolm's Temple?

2. Why does Laura sound grateful for the subway money?

3. What does Luther have to say about what Malcolm does to his hair?

4. What does Malcolm say he feels like when he walks the streets of Harlem?

5. What does Malcolm say Luther is the first to do in the prison?

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