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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 did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?
(a) The dictionary.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Koran.
(d) Shakespeare's plays.

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

3. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Charlie Rose.
(d) Dexter Probst.

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

5. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) The lawn of the White House.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Washington Monument.
(d) The Lincoln Memorial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incident in 1957 brought Malcolm to the attention of the larger black community, especially in Harlem?

2. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?

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

4. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?

5. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?

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