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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Chickens Coming Home to Roost (1964-65).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?
(a) Whites.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Racists.
(d) Governmental leaders.

2. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1954.

3. In Chapter 5, what did Cone state that King was, rather than a "academic theologian"?
(a) "A theorist of possibility."
(b) "A theologian of action."
(c) "A theorist of change."
(d) "A theologian of God."

4. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Dexter Probst.
(d) Charlie Rose.

5. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?
(a) Royal Cola.
(b) Pepsi.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) Tab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Malcolm the name "Malcolm X"?

2. What German term did King use to refer to his belief that "the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness [we have] cosmic companionship"?

3. What title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?

4. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?

5. According to Cone, who was the only person to point out the "past and current injustices of American society in relation to its inhabitants of African descent"?

(see the answer key)

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