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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Malcolm replace his surname?
(a) Little
(b) Big
(c) X
(d) Y

2. What does Haley say he tried to be when he wrote Malcolm's autobiography?
(a) An observer of his life
(b) Funny
(c) A passionate chronicler
(d) A dispassionate chronicler

3. Why does Elijah Muhammad stop speaking for the organization?
(a) He falls ill
(b) He is too busy
(c) Malcolm is more charismatic
(d) His son dies

4. What does Malcolm claim are the positive aspects of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Getting attention for the poor black community
(b) Reforming criminals and drug users
(c) Making the white people look at themselves
(d) Opening communications between blacks and whites

5. What is the name of Elijah's son?
(a) Norbert
(b) Wallace
(c) Davis
(d) Jackie

6. What kind of personality does Haley state that Malcolm has?
(a) A stubborn personality
(b) An angry personality
(c) An electric personality
(d) A noble personality

7. What prediction does Malcolm make in this final chapter?
(a) That he will divorce
(b) That the white man will become slave
(c) That he will be assassinated
(d) That he will become president

8. What doe Malcolm see outside the Harvard University window?
(a) The hospital his mother into which his mother was admitted.
(b) An apartment he robbed
(c) A pile of used syringes
(d) His old car

9. With what other Afro-American organization does Malcolm claim to have differences?
(a) The Civil Rights movement
(b) The Black Panthers
(c) Afro American feminist movement
(d) The Free Sudan Organization

10. According to Malcolm, what have blacks been brainwashed to worship?
(a) A blonde, blue-eyed man
(b) A white, bearded nothing
(c) A white man getting fat on a black man's work
(d) White women

11. What is the name of the Saudi ambassador?
(a) Abdul Kayum
(b) Jedda
(c) Mr. Shawarbi
(d) Adbar Rhman

12. Who edits Malcolm's autobiography?
(a) Elmore Leonard
(b) Alex Haley
(c) Richard Wright
(d) James Baldwin

13. What does Malcolm name his new organization?
(a) Organization of African Unity
(b) Nation of Humans
(c) Society for Afro Americans
(d) Organization of World Unity

14. How many pages of a dictionary does Malcolm copy per day?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Six
(d) Seven

15. To what does Malcolm dedicate each day?
(a) His family
(b) His autobiography
(c) His work
(d) His friends

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Malcolm live with in Detroit?

2. In what year does this final chapter take place?

3. What is Malcolm's argument against the Civil Rights movement

4. To shich country's racism does Malcolm compare America?

5. With which old friend does Malcolm reunite in Boston?

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