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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which magazine named the book as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the 20th century?
(a) The Literary Review
(b) Time
(c) Mohammed Speaks
(d) The Paris Review

2. How many hours of taped recordings does Haley have of interviews between himself and Malcolm?
(a) Thousands of hours
(b) Hundred of hours
(c) 80 hours
(d) 50 hours

3. From where does Malcolm want his organization to enlist support?
(a) Pakistan
(b) The American government
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) African countries

4. Who does Malcolm live with in Detroit?
(a) Wilfred
(b) Ella
(c) Muhammed
(d) Reginald

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

6. Who writes the final chapter?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Richard Wright
(c) Jesse Jackson
(d) Alex Haley

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

8. Who does Malcolm meet in 1965?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Jesse Jackson
(c) Alex Hayley
(d) James Baldwin

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

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

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

12. Who does Malcolm borrow money from to go on his pilgrimage?
(a) Betty
(b) Ella
(c) Reginald
(d) Sammy

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

14. Who visits Malcolm in his dream in this chapter?
(a) Muhammad
(b) A white man
(c) An Asian man
(d) Allah

15. What happens to Reginald after he is rejected from the Nation?
(a) He goes insane
(b) He becomes a Christian
(c) He becomes a drug addict
(d) He becomes a wanderer

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Malcolm claim are the positive aspects of the Nation of Islam?

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

3. What does Malcolm feel iss the solution to Afro American problems?

4. What continent does Malcolm visit after his pilgrimage?

5. What does this final chapter outline?

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