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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 Malcolm X?
(a) Six feet nine inches.
(b) Six feet three inches.
(c) Five feet ten inches.
(d) Five feet four inches.

2. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?
(a) Coca-Cola.
(b) Royal Cola.
(c) Tab.
(d) Pepsi.

3. Who did Malcolm X claim killed his father?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) America.
(c) The White Supremacists.
(d) The Black Legionnaires.

4. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

5. How many children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

4. In what year was Malcolm X born?

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

(see the answer key)

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