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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: I See a Nightmare (1952-63).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Senator was declared as an open racist in Chapter 3?
(a) Monroe.
(b) Dixon.
(c) Moreland.
(d) Eastland.

2. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Eden.
(c) White.
(d) Canaan.

3. What incident in 1957 brought Malcolm to the attention of the larger black community, especially in Harlem?
(a) The Hinton Johnson incident.
(b) The Lyndon Johnson incident.
(c) The Jack Rosdale incident.
(d) The Montgomery Bus Boycott incident.

4. In what year was Malcolm X born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1938.

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?
(a) Trunda Blase.
(b) Deborah Miller.
(c) Margie Mathers.
(d) Claudette Colvin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?

3. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?

4. Complete the following statement made by King: "Men often __________ each other because they _________ each other".

5. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?

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