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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: I Have a Dream (1955-64).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Malcolm's nickname in prison?
(a) Satan.
(b) Cain.
(c) Judas.
(d) Pain.

2. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Richard Alen.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

4. On what date did Malcolm X give the speech that began, "No, I'm not an American"?
(a) December 24, 1972.
(b) May 27, 1953.
(c) April 3, 1964.
(d) June 4, 1993.

5. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?
(a) His teachers at school.
(b) The Declaration of Independence and the Bible.
(c) The Constitution and the Koran.
(d) The Bible and Gospel songs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To which biblical person was Martin Luther King, Jr. compared?

4. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?

5. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?

(see the answer key)

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