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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. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1943.

2. In what year was Malcolm X paroled from Charlestown State Prison?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1961.

3. What did Malcolm X claim that the "black masses living at the bottom of the social heap" were living?
(a) A dream.
(b) A social lynching.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) An everlasting imprisonment.

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

5. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?

2. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?

3. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?

4. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

5. What was Malcolm X's birth name?

(see the answer key)

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