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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 did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?
(a) Brainwashed them.
(b) Stripped them of their freedoms.
(c) Lied to them.
(d) Dehumanized them.

2. What three themes shaped King's faith and theology?
(a) Love, balance, and pride.
(b) Pride, Chrisitanity, and hope.
(c) Justice, fear, and power.
(d) Hope, justice, and love.

3. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?
(a) An activist.
(b) A black.
(c) A man.
(d) A minister.

4. What tradition was Black Christianity associated with?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Surfism.
(c) Integrationalism.
(d) Nationalism.

5. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Lincoln's.
(b) Kennedy's.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s.
(d) Patrice Lumumba's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?

2. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?

3. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

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

5. What kind of resources did the use of white, liberal Protestant religion offer to King in regard to the movement?

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