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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. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Greenville.
(c) Carolina.
(d) Birmingham.

2. What church was King's father a minister of?
(a) South Central Baptist Church.
(b) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(c) First Baptist Church.
(d) Ebenezer Baptist Church.

3. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?
(a) American.
(b) Black.
(c) A man.
(d) African.

4. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

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"?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Rosa Parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Malcolm announce his break with the Nation of Islam?

2. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?

3. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?

4. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?

5. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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