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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: We Must Love Our White Brothers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?
(a) "Messiah of indifference."
(b) "Messiah of hate."
(c) "Messiah of power."
(d) "Messiah of blackness."

2. 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 Montgomery Bus Boycott incident.
(d) The Jack Rosdale incident.

3. In what year did Martin Delany write "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of Colored People of the United States"?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1852.

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

5. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Greenville.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. In front of which U.S. President did Martin Luther King, Jr. first speak about the "American Dream"?

2. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?

3. How many objectives did King announce for the role of blacks in the movement?

4. 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?

5. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

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