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

2. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?
(a) A hyena.
(b) A slug.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A lion.

3. What television production portrayed the Black Muslims as a black nationalist hate group in 1959?
(a) "A Twisted Definition of Hate."
(b) "The Hate That Hate Produced."
(c) "The Weather Underground Documentary."
(d) "Stormfront."

4. What did Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?
(a) "Puppies."
(b) "Slaves."
(c) "Puppets."
(d) "Racists."

5. In what year was school segregation declared unconstitutional?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cone, what did Malcolm alienate in Chapter 6?

2. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)

3. According to Cone, to whom was Malcolm's most important audience during his last year?

4. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?

5. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?

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