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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what is Malcolm's name being linked to in America?
(a) Violence
(b) A sex scandal
(c) Film roles
(d) The presidency

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

3. In what year does this final chapter take place?
(a) 1972
(b) 1965
(c) 1964
(d) 1981

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

5. What continent does Malcolm visit after his pilgrimage?
(a) Africa
(b) South America
(c) Oceania
(d) Europe

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

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

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

9. What is Malcolm surprised about when he visits Cairo?
(a) It is full of whites
(b) There are Christians
(c) It is poor
(d) It is modern

10. What does the Nation accuse Malcolm of doing?
(a) Using the organization's money for his own purpose
(b) Taking drugs
(c) Purposely creating friction within the organization
(d) Sleeping with white women

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Malcolm always credit in his press conferences?

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

3. What does Malcolm tell Muhammad he is discontented with about the Nation of Islam?

4. Where does Muhammad send Malcolm to build a temple?

5. In what year is Malcolm released from prison?

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