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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 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 lion.
(d) A vulture.

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

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

4. What was considered Malcolm's most repeated and controversial claim?
(a) "White America will pay!"
(b) "White America lied!"
(c) "White America will fall!"
(d) "White America is doomed!"

5. What did blacks believe having faith in would deliver them from the KKK and other white hate groups?
(a) "God."
(b) "The God of the Southern Black Baptist."
(c) "God on Earth."
(d) "The God of the Bible."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?

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. According to Chapter 3, what did Cone say most people thought King centered his thoughts and actions upon?

5. Who made the following statement: "If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place"?

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