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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 was the "most important similarity between Martin and Malcolm"?
(a) Their history.
(b) Their honesty.
(c) Their goal.
(d) Their honor.

2. What Senator was declared as an open racist in Chapter 3?
(a) Moreland.
(b) Monroe.
(c) Eastland.
(d) Dixon.

3. 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 Conservationist."
(b) "The New Yorker."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Playboy."

4. What was the South described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Backwards.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Hell.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?

3. To which biblical person was Martin Luther King, Jr. compared?

4. What governor was stated as a "camouflaged" racist in Chapter 3?

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

(see the answer key)

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