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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Nothing but Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the author and civil rights activist that spoke of "twoness"?
(a) John O. Killens.
(b) James Meredith.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Dorothy Height.

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

4. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?
(a) Midwestern Baptist.
(b) Black Baptist.
(c) Southern Baptist.
(d) Black Christian.

5. To what did Malcolm compare America's downfall in Chapter 6?
(a) Lincoln's death.
(b) Egypt.
(c) The end of slavery.
(d) Atlantis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?

2. According to Cone, to whom was Malcolm's most important audience during his last year?

3. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?

4. What did Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?

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

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