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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Two Roads to Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine's interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. seemed to speak to Martin's dismissal of Malcolm as a "significant, creative black leader"?
(a) "The New Yorker."
(b) "Playboy."
(c) "The Conservationist."
(d) "Time."

2. Who made the following statement: "If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place"?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Malcolm.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

3. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Ford.

4. On what date did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) July 4, 1943.
(b) August 12, 1971.
(c) May 17, 1957.
(d) January 31, 1961.

5. In front of which U.S. President did Martin Luther King, Jr. first speak about the "American Dream"?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Ford.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What television production portrayed the Black Muslims as a black nationalist hate group in 1959?

2. What need did King address in his speech, "Prayer Pilgrimage"?

3. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?

4. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?

5. Who was the founder of the Nation of Islam?

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