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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Muhammad relocated to in this chapter?
(a) Michigan
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) Los Angeles
(d) Phoenix

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

3. What is Malcolm's argument against the Civil Rights movement
(a) They have to knock things down. not tap on them
(b) Racism is a human issue, not a civil rights issue.
(c) Islam is the black religion
(d) They need to strive for their own identity

4. Who does Malcolm say has been suspended from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Ella
(b) Sammy
(c) Shorty
(d) Reginald

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

6. What country does Malcolm's plane make a stop in on its way to Saudi Arabia?
(a) Germany
(b) Britain
(c) Russia
(d) Iceland

7. Who does Malcolm begin a correspondence with in this chapter?
(a) Elijah Muhammad
(b) Ella
(c) President Kennedy
(d) His mother

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

9. What does Malcolm leave to Archie?
(a) A reefer
(b) The Bible
(c) All of his money
(d) The Koran

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

11. What do the whites call Malcolm?
(a) A communist
(b) The Messiah
(c) The angry black man
(d) Satan

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

13. What word does Malcolm use for the first time at a press conference?
(a) White devils
(b) American brothers
(c) Afro Americans
(d) Black Americans

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

15. What does Malcolm feel iss the solution to Afro American problems?
(a) Education
(b) Unity
(c) Going back to Africa
(d) Civil war

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Malcolm borrow money from to go on his pilgrimage?

2. What does Haley say he tried to be when he wrote Malcolm's autobiography?

3. Who writes the final chapter?

4. What happens to Reginald after he is rejected from the Nation?

5. Why is Malcolm so upset that Muhammad has been engaging in immoral activities?

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