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

2. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Elijah Muhammad.
(c) Himself.
(d) The black initiative.

3. What did both Malcolm and his father share enthusiasm for according to "Home to Allah, Home to Blackness"?
(a) The faith in God.
(b) A love for self.
(c) The Nation of Islam.
(d) Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement.

4. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Heaven.
(b) White.
(c) Canaan.
(d) Eden.

5. What leaders did King find more interest in regarding their influence on the change of world politics? (Chapter 9)
(a) African leaders.
(b) South American leaders.
(c) European leaders.
(d) Russian leaders.

Short Answer 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"?

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

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

4. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?

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

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