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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 was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?
(a) Ostrowski.
(b) Smythe.
(c) Mueller.
(d) DuBois.

2. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) "The wrath of God showing his face."
(b) "Chickens coming home to roost."
(c) "The rage of blacks entering Stage One."
(d) "The tortoise beating the hare."

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

4. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?
(a) The Man.
(b) The preacher.
(c) The dreamer.
(d) The prophet.

5. How many children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

2. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?

3. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?

4. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?

5. What animal did Malcolm compare blacks to in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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