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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Making of a Bad Nigger (1925-52).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) Six feet three inches.
(b) Five feet eight inches.
(c) Five feet eleven inches.
(d) Six feet four inches.

2. What was the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife?
(a) Coretta.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Sybil.
(d) Martha.

3. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Chronicle.
(c) The Southern Reporter.
(d) The Washington Post.

4. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1954.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s first experience with segregation?

2. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?

3. What was Malcolm X's birth name?

4. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first and only time in their lives?

5. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?

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