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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. Who are Malcolm and the others looking for at the police station?
(a) a black friend who was only an innocent bystander.
(b) Minister Hinton who was beaten by the police.
(c) the two black men who were fighting on the street.
(d) Sidney who was taken into custody.

2. What does Sidney witness on the streets as he delivers his papers?
(a) a fist fight between two black men.
(b) a fist fight between a white man and a black man.
(c) a gunfight between two blacks.
(d) a Muslim minister preaching on the corner.

3. What does Luther tell Malcolm all black people are?
(a) a lost tribe of Israel.
(b) a nation.
(c) a sub-species.
(d) an accident of nature.

4. How does Malcolm introduce himself at the police station?
(a) Minister Malcolm Little of Temple Faith.
(b) Minister Malcolm X of Temple Number Seven.
(c) Lawyer Malcolm Little of the Seventh district.
(d) Rev. Malcolm X of the Black Brotherhood.

5. At the police station the night Hinton is beaten, what is the symbolism of the Muslim ministers?
(a) they symbolize the ability to hold the mob back.
(b) they symbolize a new age.
(c) they symbolize the antithesis of the Ku Klux Klan.
(d) they symbolize new power.

Short Answer Questions

1. If God is black, what is Luther's conclusion about white men?

2. Who is Sidney?

3. What does Miss Betty want to know about Malcolm to tell her class of young women?

4. What is the symbolism of the new glasses and a pawnshop watch lying on a towel?

5. Who does Malcolm tell Sidney to call when he reports the mob on the street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the white policemen arrive at the fight?

2. Why are Luther, Sidney, and Malcolm waiting outside a classroom one day?

3. What is the significance of Malcolm's attempts to straighten his hair, according to Luther?

4. What does Malcolm, now a Muslim minister, organize after the riot in Harlem?

5. Who are Betty's students in the class?

6. As the second part opens, what is happening to Malcolm?

7. What is the result of Malcolm's taking the group of ministers to the jail?

8. What does Luther tell Malcolm about?

9. How does Malcolm show his humility after becoming a Muslim minister?

10. What life-changing information does Malcolm finally receive from Luther?

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