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

2. What job does Shorty teach Malcolm how to perform?
(a) selling daily newspapers.
(b) men's room attendant at the Roseland Ballroom.
(c) as a porter at the train station.
(d) becoming a pimp.

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

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 have two more years of probation.
(d) that he will not have to go to the reform school.

5. In a flashback, what does Louise say to Earl about a rabbit?
(a) we only raised rabbits to sell to white folks.
(b) nobody eats rabbits anymore.
(c) I don't know how to cook a rabbit.
(d) we are all tired of eating rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Klansmen do to the Littles' house?

2. What happens to Malcolm after his mother is taken away?

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

4. Why does Louise lose her job cooking for a white family?

5. Who is Sophia?

Short Essay Questions

1. In another flashback, how does Malcolm see himself as a prisoner?

2. What are the three areas of Malcolm's life represented in the scenario?

3. What image does the sight of a blonde woman crossing the street arouse in Malcolm?

4. What is the opening sequence in the screenplay?

5. When the radio announces that Malcolm X will speak at the Audubon Ballroom, what does the viewer learn?

6. Where did Alex Baldwin get the material to write the scenario?

7. What stands in the way of Malcolm's marrying Laura?

8. What comes out to explain Louise's fair complexion?

9. What dramatic technique does Baldwin use to set up the background of the movie?

10. After his father is murdered and his mother placed in an asylum, what happens to Malcolm?

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