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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. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?
(a) The Washington Times.
(b) Time.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Newsweek.

2. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first and only time in their lives?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

4. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1909.

5. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Descartes.
(c) John Stewert Mill.
(d) Gaius.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the NAACP founded?

3. What church was King's father a minister of?

4. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

5. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?

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