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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. In what year was Malcolm X paroled from Charlestown State Prison?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1943.

2. In what year did Malcolm convert to Islam?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1957.

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

4. Complete the following statement made by King: "Men often __________ each other because they _________ each other".
(a) Hate / fear.
(b) Love / care about.
(c) Despise / do not know.
(d) Attack / fear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?

3. 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?

4. To which biblical person was Martin Luther King, Jr. compared?

5. What religious affiliation was Malcolm X aligned with?

(see the answer key)

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