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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. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?
(a) Pico-Union.
(b) Pacoima.
(c) Watts.
(d) Compton.

2. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?
(a) Himself.
(b) The black initiative.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. What did blacks believe having faith in would deliver them from the KKK and other white hate groups?
(a) "The God of the Bible."
(b) "God on Earth."
(c) "The God of the Southern Black Baptist."
(d) "God."

4. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

5. Malcolm taught the "true Islamic faith", one upheld by Eastern Islamic teachings. To whom did he make it applicable?
(a) Eastern blacks.
(b) Westernized Islamics.
(c) Black Americans.
(d) American black men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?

2. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

3. How tall was Malcolm X?

4. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?

5. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?

(see the answer key)

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